Eliminating healthcare disparities in America beyond the IOM report /
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Totowa, N.J. :
Humana Press,
c2007
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Table of Contents:
- I. Underlying causes of healthcare disparities
- 1. Historical perspectives on healthcare disparities : is the past prologue? / Richard Allen Williams
- 2. Epidemiology of racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare / George A. Mensah and Maleeka J. Glover
- 3. Cultural diversity in medicine and in healthcare delivery / Richard Allen Williams
- II. Current problems
- 4. Healthcare and the politics of race / M. Gregg Bloche
- 5. Barriers to eliminating disparities in clinical practice: lessons from the IOM report "Unequal Treatment" / Joseph R. Betancourt and Angela Maina
- 6. Second-class medicine: implications of evidence-based medicine for improving minority access to the correct pharmaceutical therapy / Randall W. Maxey and Richard Allen Williams
- 7. The diversity benefit: how does diversity among health professionals address public needs? / Brian D. Smedley
- III. Approaches to correcting the problems
- 8. Eliminating disparities in healthcare through quality improvement / Kevin Fiscella
- 9. Eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare: a call for state healthcare anti-discrimination law / Vernellia R. Randall
- 10. Quality of care and health disparities: the evolving role of government / Garth N. Graham
- 11. The role of communities in eliminating healthcare disparities: getting down to the grass roots / JudyAnn Bigby
- 12. The potential impact of performance incentive programs on racial disparities in healthcare / Alyna T. Chien
- IV. Examples of what works
- 13. Monitoring socioeconomic determinants for healthcare disparities: tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project / Nancy Krieger ... [et a.]
- 14. The Association of Black Cardiologists: a small-group success story / Richard Allen Williams
- 15. Breathe easy in Seattle: addressing asthma disparities through healthier housing / James W. Krieger ... [et al.]
- 16. Access Health Solutions: a minority physician network model that works / Kathy B. Jackson
- 17. Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE: a community coalition to address health disparities in racial and ethnic minorities in Mecklenburg County North Carolina / Yele Aluko
- V. Concluding recommendations
- 18. Principles for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare / John Z. Ayanian and Richard Allen Williams