Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health CareInstitute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care National Academies Press, 2002 M10 2 - 780 pages Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients' and providers' attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. How to intervene? Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The committee highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve providerâ€"patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color. |
From inside the book
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... Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, 13 Data Collection and Monitoring, 21 Needed Research, 22 1 INTRODUCTION AND ... Minority Populations, 81 Racial Attitudes and Discrimination in the United States, 90 The Context of Healthcare Delivery for ...
... ethnic minority patients are more likely than white patients to refuse treatment. These studies find that differences in refusal rates are generally small and that minority patient refusal does not fully explain healthcare disparities ...
... ethnic minority patients to healthcare providers are also a potential source of disparities. Little research has been conducted as to how patients may influence the clinical encounter. It is reasonable to speculate, however, that if ...
... Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Alan R. Nelson, Adrienne Y. Stith, Brian D. Smedley. which they are enrolled and the relative lack of providers located in minority communities. Health systems should attempt to ensure that every patient ...
... ethnic minority patients than to white patients, even among patients insured at the same level. Low payment rates limit the supply of physician (and other healthcare provider) services to low-income groups, disproportionately affecting ...
Contents
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2 The Healthcare Environment and Its Relation to Disparities | 80 |
Patient and SystemLevel Factors | 125 |
The Clinical Encounter | 160 |
Systemic Strategies | 180 |
CrossCultural Education in the Health Professions | 199 |
7 Data Collection and Monitoring | 215 |
Highlights from Focus Group Findings | 392 |
E Committee and Staff Biographies | 406 |
Paper Contributions | 415 |
A Review of the Evidence and a Consideration of CausesH Jack Geiger | 417 |
A Background and HistoryW Michael Byrd and Linda A Clayton | 455 |
The Rationing of Healthcare and Health Disparity for the American IndiansAlaska NativesJennie R Joe | 528 |
The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Process and Outcomes of HealthcareLisa A Cooper and Debra L Roter | 552 |
The Culture of Medicine and Racial Ethnic and Class Disparities in HealthcareMaryJo DelVecchio Good Cara James Byron J Good and Anne E Becker | 594 |
8 Needed Research | 235 |
References | 244 |
Appendixes | 269 |
A Data Sources and Methods | 271 |
B Literature Review | 285 |
C FederalLevel and Other Initiatives to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare | 384 |
The Civil Rights Dimension of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health StatusThomas E Perez | 626 |
Issues in the Design Structure and Administration of Federal Healthcare Financing Programs Supported Through Direct Public FundingSara Rosenba... | 664 |
A ConceptualizationThomas Rice | 699 |
An Ethical Analysis of When and How They MatterMadison Powers and Ruth Faden | 722 |
Index | 739 |