Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Health and health inequity : definitions, epidemiology and data sources
  • Health disparities measurements : no tools is no excuse for bad tools
  • Institutionalized causes of health inequities and the social determinants of health
  • Personally-mediated mechanisms of health disparities
  • Internalized causes of health disparities or "the white man's ice is colder"
  • Cultural competence and cross-cultural communication in health care
  • Language related barriers : interpretation and translation in health and health care
  • Academic and financial aspects in health inequities
  • Community engagement, empowerment and capacity-building
  • Health inequities in LGBT populations : the invisible minority
  • Injustice in health research
  • Environmental injustice
  • Specific issues regarding health inequities in American Indians and Alaska Natives
  • Patient navigators
  • Pathways to health equity solutions.