Health disparities, diversity, and inclusion : context, controversies, and solutions / Patti R. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Patti Renee, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Medical care--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Medical care.

United States.

Discrimination in medical care--United States.

Discrimination in medical care.

Health Status Disparities.

Cultural Diversity.

Cultural Competency.

Medical Subjects:

Health Status Disparities.

Cultural Diversity.

Cultural Competency.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Despite the many public health successes over the last century, health disparity continues to exist in American society. Health Disparities, Diversity, and Inclusion: Context, Controversies, and Solutions is an incisive examinations of this important topic. The book carefully explores steps that must be taken to prepare for the rapidly changing demographics in American society, including immigration reform (emerging majorities), and evidenced-based information substantiating the fact that diversity matters in terms of the provision of health care. Diversity is examined in terms of patient satisfaction and quality outcomes with an emphasis on racial, ethnic, gender, and linguistic diversity. The book highlights steps that key stakeholders, including federal, state, and private health care and public health entities, should take to ensure that representatives from emerging majority groups are involved with and serve as leaders in terms of the provision of health care at every level. The discussion of diversity is contrasted with the concept of cultural competency and how both go hand-in-hand in terms of the ultimate goal of closing the health status gap in the United States. Book jacket.

Contents:

Health disparities : the meaning and a historical overview

The extent of the health status gap and why it has not been closed

What is diversity and who defines it?

Health disparities by the numbers and Obamacare

Diversity in health care : making it happen and sustaining it

Health disparities in urban communities : the issues, concerns, and solutions

Health disparities in rural communities

Cultural competence versus diversity : why cultural competence also matters

Women and health disparities : specific issues, concerns, and solutions

Health disparities and the impact on the lives of children : issues, concerns, and solutions

Closing the health status gap : a spiritual approach toward resolution

The future of health disparities and diversity : recommendations toward solutions

Case studies and health disparities

Case studies and diversity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2017).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Rose, Patti Renee. Health disparities, diversity, and inclusion.

ISBN:

9781284090178

1284090175

Publisher Number:

99971405066

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.