Eliminating healthcare disparities in America
Subtitle: beyond the IOM report
By: edited by Richard Allen Williams
Contributors: Williams, Richard Allen, 1936-
Publisher: Humana
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781934115428
Subjects: Discrimination in medical care; Health services accessibility; Minorities -- Medical care; Race discrimination; Racism -- Cross-cultural studies; Social medicine
Notes: The "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

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: I. Underlying causes of healthcare disparities; title: 1. Historical perspectives on healthcare disparities : is the past prologue? / Richard Allen Williams; title: 2. Epidemiology of racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare / George A. Mensah and Maleeka J. Glover; title: 3. Cultural diversity in medicine and in healthcare delivery / Richard Allen Williams; title: II. Current problems; title: 4. Healthcare and the politics of race / M. Gregg Bloche; title: 5. Barriers to eliminating disparities in clinical practice: lessons from the IOM report "Unequal Treatment" / Joseph R. Betancourt and Angela Maina; title: 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; title: 7. The diversity benefit: how does diversity among health professionals address public needs? / Brian D. Smedley; title: III. Approaches to correcting the problems; title: 8. Eliminating disparities in healthcare through quality improvement / Kevin Fiscella; title: 9. Eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare: a call for state healthcare anti-discrimination law / Vernellia R. Randall; title: 10. Quality of care and health disparities: the evolving role of government / Garth N. Graham; title: 11. The role of communities in eliminating healthcare disparities: getting down to the grass roots / JudyAnn Bigby; title: 12. The potential impact of performance incentive programs on racial disparities in healthcare / Alyna T. Chien; title: IV. Examples of what works; title: 13. Monitoring socioeconomic determinants for healthcare disparities: tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project / Nancy Krieger ... [et a.]; title: 14. The Association of Black Cardiologists: a small-group success story / Richard Allen Williams; title: 15. Breathe easy in Seattle: addressing asthma disparities through healthier housing / James W. Krieger ... [et al.]; title: 16. Access Health Solutions: a minority physician network model that works / Kathy B. Jackson; title: 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; title: V. Concluding recommendations; title: 18. Principles for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare / John Z. Ayanian and Richard Allen Williams