The impact of demographics on health and health care : race, ethnicity and other social factors / edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kronenfeld, Jennie J.

Series:

Research in the sociology of health care ; v. 28.

Research in the sociology of health care, 0275-4959 ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health services accessibility--Case studies.

Health services accessibility.

Discrimination in medical care--Case studies.

Discrimination in medical care.

Minorities--Medical care--Case studies.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 28, The Impact of Demographics on Health and Healthcare: Race, Ethnicity and other Social Factors, focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. The first section, Social Factors Leading to Differences in Health and Health Care, reviews basic material on the topic. The second section on Racial and Ethnic Factors in Differences in Health and Health Care is the largest section of the book, and includes 6 articles looking at racial disparities on a variety of topics such as knowledge of hepatitis C Virus, health services received and patients experiences in seeking health care, use of CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) services, and the role of social capital in class and race health disparities in health information seeking behaviour. The third section includes three articles focused on geographic and community factors. The fourth section has two articles on gender and age and gender and language. The fifth section has two articles on lifecourse issues such as maternal depression and hospice care.

Contents:

Social factors leading to differences in health and health care : the influence of factors such as race/ethnicity, geography, and gender / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

Racial disparities in knowledge of hepatitis C virus (HCV) / Alicia Suarez

Medicare and racial disparities in health : fee-for-service v. managed care / Noah J. Webster

How much time do Americans spend seeking health care? : racial and ethnic differences in patient experiences / Deborah Carr, Yoku Ibuka, and Louise Russell

Can the behavioral model explain immigrant status and ethnic differences in U.S. adults CAM use? / Georgiana Bostean

Class and race health disparities and health information seeking behaviors / Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman, Gilbert Mireles, Neal Christopherson, and Michelle Janning

Racial disparities in stillbirths / Vicki Dryfhout

Habilitative therapy among preschool children : regional disparities in the early intervention population / Richard Lee Rogers

Consumer-directed health insurance vs. managed care : analysis of health care utilization and expenditures incurred by employees in a rural area / Cecilia M. Watkin, John White, David F. Duncan, David K. Wyant, Thomas Nicholson, Jagdish Khubchandani and Lakshminarayana Chekuri

Some considerations regarding gender when a health care interpreter is helping providers and their limited English proficient patients / Stergios Roussos, Mary-Rose Mueller, Linda Hill, Nadia Salas, Melbourne Hovell and Veronica Villarreal

Hidden gender inequalities in old age : equal treatment does not mean equal results / Sally Bould

Mothers perspectives on enhancing consumer engagement in behavioral health treatment for maternal depression / Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo, Ellen Burke Beckjord, and Donna Keyser

Mediating hospice care : mapping relations of ruling in the interdisciplinary group meeting / Maria DiTullio and Douglas MacDonald.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612797644

9781282797642

1282797646

9781849507158

1849507155

OCLC:

671601842