Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (with CD)

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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.

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Contents

SUMMARY 1
INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW 29
THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT AND
ASSESSING POTENTIAL SOURCES OF RACIAL
ASSESSING POTENTIAL SOURCES OF RACIAL
SYSTEMIC STRATEGIES 180
CROSSCULTURAL EDUCATION
NEEDED RESEARCH 235
REFERENCES 244
APPENDIXES
Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare 384
Highlights from Focus
PAPER CONTRIBUTIONS
INDEX 739
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