Williams, Richard Allen
Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform
1. Introduction: An Overview of the US Healthcare System and US Health Disparities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Louis W. Sullivan
2. Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?
Richard Allen Williams
3. Epidemiologic Profiles of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care
George A. Mensah, Maleeka J. Glover
4. Cultural Diversity in Medicine: Health Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Richard Allen Williams
5. Perspective: Health Care and the Politics of Race
M. Gregg Bloche
6. Perspective: The Spectrum of Health-care Disparities in the USA
Thomas A. LaVeist
7. Perspective: Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice – Lessons from the IOM Report “Unequal Treatment”
Joseph R. Betancourt, Angela Maina, Marina C. Cervantes
8. Perspective: Second-Class Medicine – Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to Health Care
Randall W. Maxey, Richard Allen Williams
9. Perspective: The Compelling Need for Health Literacy
Monica L. Joyner
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Overview of the Health Reform Law and Its Impact on Health-Care Disparities
Richard Allen Williams
11. The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs?
Brian D. Smedley, Ilana S. Mittman
12. The Role of Communities in Eliminating Health Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots
JudyAnn Bigby
13. The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Health Care
Alyna T. Chien
14. Eliminating Disparities in Health Care Through Quality Improvement
Kevin Fiscella
15. Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
Nancy Krieger, Pamela D. Waterman, Jarvis T. Chen, S. V. Subramanian, David H. Rehkopf
16. Perspective: Title VI, Healthcare Reform, and the Need for a State Antidiscrimination Law
Vernellia R. Randall
17. Quality of Care and Health Disparities: The Evolving Role of the Government
Garth N. Graham
18. The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small-Group Success Story in Addressing Healthcare Disparities
Richard Allen Williams, Icilma V. Fergus
19. Breathing Easier in Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing
James W. Krieger, Tim K. Takaro, Janice C. Rabkin
20. Breast and Prostate Cancer Healthcare Disparities
Elise D. Cook
21. The Role of Health IT in Eliminating Health Disparities
Sachin H. Jain, David Blumenthal
22. Remote Area Medical
Stan Brock, Amanda Wilson
23. Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Under Healthcare Reform
John Z. Ayanian, Richard Allen Williams
Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Internal Medicine
- Author(s)
- Williams, Richard Allen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 32 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781441971364