MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aRA563.M56$bE45 2007
082 00 $a362.1089$222
245 00 $aEliminating healthcare disparities in America :$bbeyond the IOM report /$cedited by Richard Allen Williams.
260 $aTotowa, N.J. :$bHumana Press,$cc2007.
300 $axxviii, 398 p. :$bill., charts ;$c24 cm.
500 $aThe "IOM Report" referred to in the title is Unequal treatment : confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care / Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, editors ; Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aI. Underlying causes of healthcare disparities -- 1. Historical perspectives on healthcare disparities : is the past prologue? / Richard Allen Williams -- 2. Epidemiology of racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare / George A. Mensah and Maleeka J. Glover -- 3. Cultural diversity in medicine and in healthcare delivery / Richard Allen Williams -- II. Current problems -- 4. Healthcare and the politics of race / M. Gregg Bloche -- 5. Barriers to eliminating disparities in clinical practice: lessons from the IOM report "Unequal Treatment" / Joseph R. Betancourt and Angela Maina -- 6. Second-class medicine: implications of evidence-based medicine for improving minority access to the correct pharmaceutical therapy / Randall W. Maxey and Richard Allen Williams -- 7. The diversity benefit: how does diversity among health professionals address public needs? / Brian D. Smedley -- III. Approaches to correcting the problems -- 8. Eliminating disparities in healthcare through quality improvement / Kevin Fiscella -- 9. Eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare: a call for state healthcare anti-discrimination law / Vernellia R. Randall -- 10. Quality of care and health disparities: the evolving role of government / Garth N. Graham -- 11. The role of communities in eliminating healthcare disparities: getting down to the grass roots / JudyAnn Bigby -- 12. The potential impact of performance incentive programs on racial disparities in healthcare / Alyna T. Chien -- IV. Examples of what works -- 13. Monitoring socioeconomic determinants for healthcare disparities: tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project / Nancy Krieger ... [et a.] -- 14. The Association of Black Cardiologists: a small-group success story / Richard Allen Williams -- 15. Breathe easy in Seattle: addressing asthma disparities through healthier housing / James W. Krieger ... [et al.] -- 16. Access Health Solutions: a minority physician network model that works / Kathy B. Jackson -- 17. Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE: a community coalition to address health disparities in racial and ethnic minorities in Mecklenburg County North Carolina / Yele Aluko -- V. Concluding recommendations -- 18. Principles for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare / John Z. Ayanian and Richard Allen Williams.
650 12 $aHealth Services Accessibility$zUnited States.
650 22 $aEthnic Groups$zUnited States.
650 22 $aMinority Groups$zUnited States.
650 22 $aDelivery of Health Care$zUnited States.
650 22 $aQuality of Health Care$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDiscrimination in medical care.
650 0 $aHealth services accessibility.
650 0 $aMinorities$xMedical care.
650 0 $aRace discrimination.
650 0 $aRacism$xCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aSocial medicine.
700 1 $aWilliams, Richard Allen,$d1936-