Eliminating healthcare disparities in America : beyond the IOM report / edited by Richard Allen Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Richard Allen, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in medical care.

Health services accessibility.

Minorities--Medical care.

Minorities.

Race discrimination.

Racism--Cross-cultural studies.

Racism.

Social medicine.

Health Services Accessibility.

Cross-cultural studies.

United States.

Ethnicity.

Minority Groups.

Delivery of Health Care.

Quality of Health Care.

Medical Subjects:

Health Services Accessibility.

United States.

Ethnicity.

Minority Groups.

Delivery of Health Care.

Quality of Health Care.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Humana, [2007]

Contents:

I. Underlying causes of healthcare disparities

Historical perspectives on healthcare disparities: is the past prologue? / Richard Allen Williams

Epidemiology of racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare / George A. Mensah and Maleeka J. Glover

Cultural diversity in medicine and in healthcare delivery / Richard Allen Williams

II. Current problems

Healthcare and the politics of race / M. Gregg Bloche

Barriers to eliminating disparities in clinical practice: lessons from the IOM report "Unequal Treatment" / Joseph R. Betancourt and Angela Maina

Second-class medicine: implications of evidence-based medicine for improving minority access to the correct pharmaceutical therapy / Randall W. Maxey and Richard Allen Williams

The diversity benefit: how does diversity among health professionals address public needs? / Brian D. Smedley

III. Approaches to correcting the problems

Eliminating disparities in healthcare through quality improvement / Kevin Fiscella

Eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare: a call for state healthcare anti-discrimination law / Vernellia R. Randall

Quality of care and health disparities: the evolving role of government / Garth N. Graham

The role of communities in eliminating healthcare disparities: getting down to the grass roots / JudyAnn Bigby

The potential impact of performance incentive programs on racial disparities in healthcare / Alyna T. Chien

IV. Examples of what works

Monitoring socioeconomic determinants for healthcare disparities: tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project / Nancy Krieger ... [et a.]

The Association of Black Cardiologists: a small-group success story / Richard Allen Williams

Breathe easy in Seattle: addressing asthma disparities through healthier housing / James W. Krieger ... [et al.]

Access Health Solutions: a minority physician network model that works / Kathy B. Jackson

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

Principles for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare / John Z. Ayanian and Richard Allen Williams.

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.

ISBN:

1934115428

9781934115428

OCLC:

154712220