Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (full Printed Version)Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care National Academies Press, 2003 - 764 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 provider–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
Results 1-3 of 65
Page 70
... Analyses controlled for several clinical factors including presence of psychotic disorder , severity of disturbance , dangerousness , psychiatric history , if physical restraints were used , hours spent in the emergency service ...
... Analyses controlled for several clinical factors including presence of psychotic disorder , severity of disturbance , dangerousness , psychiatric history , if physical restraints were used , hours spent in the emergency service ...
Page 309
... Analyses controlled for age , income , clinical characteristics , and state procedure performed . Multiple logistic regression to identify predictors of cardiac catheterization ( CC ) . Of those undergoing CC , analyses to predict ...
... Analyses controlled for age , income , clinical characteristics , and state procedure performed . Multiple logistic regression to identify predictors of cardiac catheterization ( CC ) . Of those undergoing CC , analyses to predict ...
Page 349
... Analyses Logistic regression to assess contribution of race to mothers ' report of receipt of advice or instructions dur- ing any of their prenatal visits on : breast - feeding , alcohol consumption , to- bacco , and use of illegal ...
... Analyses Logistic regression to assess contribution of race to mothers ' report of receipt of advice or instructions dur- ing any of their prenatal visits on : breast - feeding , alcohol consumption , to- bacco , and use of illegal ...
Contents
SUMMARY | 1 |
INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW | 29 |
THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT AND | 80 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjusted Administrative data African Ameri African Americans African-American patients American and white American Medical Association Analyses angioplasty Asian Asian Americans Assessed racial differences black patients CABG cancer cardiac catheterization cardiovascular catheterization Center clinical co-morbid committee controlling coronary cross-cultural cultural diabetes diagnosis discrimination disease disparities in healthcare doctor ences ethnic differences ethnic disparities ethnic minority factors federal gender health plans health services health systems healthcare disparities healthcare providers Hispanic Institute of Medicine insurance status Internal Medicine intervention Journal Latino less Logistic regression managed managed care Medicaid Medicare minority patients myocardial infarction National Native Americans nurses odds ratio outcomes participant physicians populations primary programs PTCA racial and ethnic Racial/ethnic groups rates Recommendation regression to assess renal Retrospective study revascularization Sample socioeconomic stereotypes surgery TABLE B-1 Continued therapy tients tion transplantation treatment U.S. Department white not examined white patients white women whites to receive