Eliminating healthcare disparities in America

beyond the IOM report

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Richard Allen Williams
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Eliminating healthcare disparities in America

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Humana
Language
English
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398

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Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report
2010, Humana Press
in English
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Eliminating healthcare disparities in America: beyond the IOM report
2007, Humana
in English
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Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report
August 10, 2007, Humana Press
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2007, Humana Press
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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

Edition Notes

The "IOM Report" referred to in the title is Unequal treatment : confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care / Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, editors ; Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Totowa, N.J

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Pagination
xxviii, 398 p. :
Number of pages
398

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OL17246782M
ISBN 10
1934115428
ISBN 13
9781934115428
LCCN
2007925520
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3151212

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