Williams, Richard Allen
Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America
I.Underlying Causes of Healthcare Disparities
1. Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities
Richard Allen Williams
2. Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare
George A. Mensah, 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
Joseph R. Betancourt, Angela Maina
6. Second-Class Medicine
Randall W. Maxey, Richard Allen Williams
7. The Diversity Benefit
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
Vernellia R. Randall
10. Quality of Care and Health Disparities
Garth N. Graham
11. The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities
Judy Ann 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
Nancy Krieger, Pamela D. Waterman, Jarvis T. Chen, S. V. Subramanian, David H. Rehkopf
14. The Association of Black Cardiologists
Richard Allen Williams
15. Breathe Easy in Seattle
James W. Krieger, Tim K. Takaro, Janice C. Rabkin
16. Access Health Solutions
Kathy B. Jackson
17. Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE
Yele Aluko
V.Concluding Recommendations
18. Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare
John Z. Ayanian, Richard Allen Williams
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Keywords: MEDICAL / Public Health MED078000
- Author(s)
- Williams, Richard Allen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781597454858