Racism in medicine and health parity for African Americans : "the slave health deficit".

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Medical Association (U.S.), issuing body, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Medical care--Periodicals.

African Americans.

African Americans--Medicine--Periodicals.

Medicine--Periodicals.

Medicine.

African Americans--Medicine.

African Americans--Medical care.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered page, 33 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

At head of title: National colloquium on African American health

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Medical Association, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction

Current perspectives on the African American health deficit and the influence of racial bias

The status of African American health entering the 21st Century

Race as a sociocultural concept and its impact on medicine

The black health deficit

Racial and ethnic health disparities: the problem today

A catalyst for change

Achieving health parity for all Americans

Recommendations

Conclusions.

Notes:

Text printed in two columns.

The NMA, a US organisation, promotes the collective interests of physicians and patients of African descent.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-33).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

1249564933