Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America Beyond the IOM Report /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Williams, Richard Allen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Medical research.; Medical ethics.; Quality of life.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Quality of Life Research.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America, Dr. Richard Allen Williams assembles the very best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public consciousness of this issue. These experts provide the benefits of their experience and expertise as a resource for helping others to make judic...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Underlying Causes of Healthcare Disparities
• Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities
• Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare
• Cultural Diversity in Medicine and in Healthcare Delivery
• Current Problems
• Healthcare and the Politics of Race
• Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice
• Second-Class Medicine
• The Diversity Benefit
• Approaches to Correcting the Problems
• Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement
• Eliminating Racial Discrimination in Healthcare
• Quality of Care and Health Disparities
• The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities
• The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare
• Examples of What Works
• Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities
• The Association of Black Cardiologists
• Breathe Easy in Seattle
• Access Health Solutions
• Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE
• Concluding Recommendations
• Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare.