Title: Health policies and Black Americans /
Authors: Willis, David P.
Publisher: Transaction Books,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Health Policy; African Americans; African Americans Health and hygiene; Medical policy United States; African Americans United States.; Health Policy United States.; United States
Contents: The quality of life for Black Americans twenty years after the civil rights revolution / Reynolds Farley -- Black demographic trends in the 1980s / William P. O'Hare -- Conceptual and methodological issues in the use of race as a variable / Doris Y. Wilkinson and Gary King -- Black-white differences in health status / Ronald M. Andersen, Ross M. Mullner and Llewellyn J. Cornelius -- History of Black mortality and health before 1940 / Douglas C. Ewbank -- Health differentials between Blacks and whites / Kenneth G. Manton, Clifford H. Patrick and Katrina W. Johnson -- Public versus employment-related health insurance / Stephen H. Long -- Health care for Black Americans / Karen Davis [and others] -- Constraining the supply of physicians / Ruth S. Hanft and Catherine C. White -- Paying the price / Mark Schlesinger -- Reduction of hypertension-associated heart disease and stroke among Black Americans / Daniel D. Savage, Daniel L. McGee and Gerry Oster -- Health policy : gaps in access, delivery, and utilization of the Pap smear in the United States / Claudia Baquet and Knut Ringen -- Improving the mental health of Black Americans / Harold W. Neighbors.