LaVeist, Thomas A.
Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader
Race, Ethnicity and Health, Second Edition,is a critical selection of hallmark articles that address health disparities in America. It effectively documents the need for equal treatment and equal health status for minorities. Intended as a resource for faculty and students in public health as well as the social sciences, it will be also be valuable to public health administrators and frontline staff who serve diverse racial and ethnic populations.The book bringstogether the best peer reviewed research literature from the leading scholars and faculty in this growing field, providing a historical and political context for the study of health, race, and ethnicity, with key findings on disparities in access, use, and quality. This volume also examines the role of health care providers in health disparities and discusses the issue of matching patients and doctors by race.
New chapters cover: reflections on demographic changes in the US based on the current census; metrics and nomenclature for disparities; theories of genetic basis for disparities; the built environment; residential segregation; environmental health; occupational health; health disparities in integrated communities; Latino health; Asian populations; stress and health; physician/patient relationships; hospital treatment of minorities; the slavery hypertension hypothesis; geographic disparities; and intervention design.
Keywords: disparities in health care, health care and race, health care for ethnic populations, research literature on disparities in health care for minority populations, study of health race and ethnicity, role of health care providers in health disparities, matching patients and doctors by race, demographics and health care, Latino health, Asian Americans and health, stress and health, hospital treatment of minorities
- Editor
- LaVeist, Thomas A.
- Isaac, Lydia A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2
- Series
- Public Health/Vulnerable Populations
- Page amount
- 848 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118086988
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118219386