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Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform

Building upon the success of Dr. Williams's widely influential book Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report, this new volume takes a fresh and timely look at the state of healthcare reform and the progress and problems we face in the pursuit of healthcare equality....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Williams, Richard Allen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?
  • Epidemiology Profiles of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare
  • Cultural Diversity in Medicine: Health Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
  • Perspective: Healthcare and the Politics of Race
  • Perspective: The Spectrum of Healthcare Disparities in the United States
  • Perspective: Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice: Lessons From the IOM  Report "Unequal Treatment"
  • Perspective: Second-Class Medicine: Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to Healthcare
  • Perspective: The Compelling Need for Health Literacy
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Overview of the Health Reform Law and Its Impact on Healthcare Disparities
  • The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs?
  • The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots
  • The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare
  • Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement
  • Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
  • Perspective: Title VI, Healthcare Reform, and the Need for a State Anti-Discrimination Law
  • Quality of Care and Disparities: The Evolving Role of Government
  • The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small Group Success Story in Addressing Healthcare Disparities
  • Breathing Easier in Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing
  • Breast and Prostate Cancer Healthcare Disparities
  • The Role of Health IT in Eliminating Disparities
  • Remote Area Medical: Pioneers of No Cost Healthcare
  • Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Under Healthcare Reform.