Unequal treatment : confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care
The book relates the findings of the National Institute of Medicine's Committee for Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. The findings show that racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower quality of healthcare in the United States than do non-minorities
Print Book, English, ©2003
National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., ©2003
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xvi, 764 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
9780309082655, 9780309085328, 9780309084031, 030908265X, 0309085322, 0309084032
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1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction and Literature Review; 4 2 The Healthcare Environment and Its Relation to Disparities; 5 3 Assessing Potential Sources of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care: Patient- and System-Level Factors; 6 4 Assessing Potential Sources of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care: The Clinical Encounter; 7 5 Interventions: Systemic Strategies; 8 6 Interventions: Cross-Cultural Education in the Health Professions; 9 7 Data Collection and Monitoring; 10 8 Needed Research; 11 References; 12 Appendixes; 13 A Data Sources and Methods; 14 B Literature Review; 15 C Federal-Level and Other Initiatives to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare; 16 D Racial Disparities in Healthcare: Highlights from Focus Group Findings; 17 E Committee and Staff Biographies; 18 Paper Contributions; 19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment: A Review of the Evidence and a Consideration of Causes - H. Jack Geiger; 20 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: A Background and History - W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton; 21 The Rationing of Healthcare and Health Disparity for the American Indians/Alaska Natives - Jennie R. Joe; 22 Patient-Provider Communication: The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Process and Outcomes of Healthcare - Lisa A. Cooper and Debra L. Roter; 23 The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare - Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Cara James, Byron J. Good, and Anne E. Becker; 24 The Civil Rights Dimension of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status - Thomas E. Perez; 25 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: Issues in the Design, Structure, and Administration of Federal Healthcare Financing Programs Supported Through Direct Public Funding - Sara Rosenbaum; 26 The Impact of Cost Containment Efforts on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: A Conceptualization - Thomas Rice; 27 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: An Ethical Analysis of When and How They Matter - Madison Powers and Ruth Faden; 28 Index
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