Unequal Treatment [[electronic resource] ] : Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781994103321
• Autore: Medicine Institute of
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, : National Academies Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-309-13308-4; 0-309-15166-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (782 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.108900973
• Soggetti: Discrimination in medical care; Health services accessibility; Minorities -- Medical care; Race discrimination; Racism -- Cross-cultural studies; Social medicine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction and Literature Review""; ""2 The Healthcare Environment and Its Relation to Disparities""; ""3 Assessing Potential Sources of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care: Patient- and System-Level Factors""; ""4 Assessing Potential Sources of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care: The Clinical Encounter""; ""5 Interventions: Systemic Strategies""; ""6 Interventions: Cross-Cultural Education in the Health Professions""; ""7 Data Collection and Monitoring""; ""8 Needed Research""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""A Data Sources and Methods""""B Literature Review""; ""C Federal-Level and Other Initiatives to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare""; ""D Racial Disparities in Healthcare: Highlights from Focus Group Findings""; ""E Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""Paper Contributions""; ""Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment: A Review of the Evidence and a Consideration of Causes H. Jack Geiger""; ""Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: A Background and History W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton""; ""The Rationing of Healthcare and Health Disparity for the American Indians/Alaska Natives Jennie R. Joe""""Patient-Provider Communication: The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Process and Outcomes of Healthcare Lisa A. Cooper and Debra L. Roter""; ""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""; ""The Civil Rights Dimension of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status Thomas E. Perez""; ""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""""The Impact of Cost Containment Efforts on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: A Conceptualization Thomas Rice""; ""Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: An Ethical Analysis of When and How They Matter Madison Powers and Ruth Faden""; ""Index""