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Accessing healthcare : responding to diversity / edited by Judith Healy and Martin McKee.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transcultural medical care.
- Minorities--Medical care.
- Minorities.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Health services accessibility.
- Medical care.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Minority Groups.
- Cultural Diversity.
- Patient Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Minority Groups.
- Cultural Diversity.
- Patient Care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 379 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Responding to diversity
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Health-care systems in developed countries must respond to increasingly diverse populations given greater population movements in our globalized world. The chapters in this book discuss countries and population groups that illustrate different responses to claimant groups.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Solomon R. Benatar
- 1. Different people, different services? / Judith Healy and Martin McKee
- 2. Sex and gender in health care and health policy / Dorothy Broom and Lesley Doyal
- 3. Services for older people / Christina R. Victor
- 4. Meeting the needs of people with disabilities / Ian Basnett
- 5. Health care for rich and poor alike / Margaret Whitehead and Barbara Hanratty
- 6. Access and equity in Australian rural health services / John S. Humphreys and Jane Dixon
- 7. Captive populations: prison health care / Andrew Coyle and Vivien Stern
- 8. New citizens: East Germans in a united Germany / Reinhard Busse and Ellen Nolte
- 9. Overseas citizens: citoyens de France / Virginie Halley des Fontaines
- 10. Migrants: universal health services in Sweden / Solvig Ekblad
- 11. Asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom / Naaz Coker
- 12. Multicultural health care in Britain / Rory Williams and Seeromanie Harding
- 13. Roma health: problems and perception / Martin Kovats
- 14. 'On our terms': the politics of Aboriginal health in Australia / Robert Griew, Beverly Sibthorpe, Ian Anderson, Sandra Eades and Ted Wilkes
- 15. Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Sue Crengle, Peter Crampton and Alistair Woodward
- 16. The history and politics of health care for Native Americans / Stephen J. Kunitz
- 17. The value and challenges of separate services: First Nation in Canada / Josee G. Lavoie
- 18. Delivering health services in diverse societies / Judith Healy and Martin McKee.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191723681
- 0191723681
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