Special Populations in the Community
Subtitle: Advances in Reducing Health Disparities
Contributors: Angeline Bushy (Editor); Juliann G. Sebastian (Editor)
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780834213647
Subjects: Medicine: General Issues; Public Health; Health services accessibility; Community Health; Social Stratification; United States; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Poor; Health/Fitness; Medical care; Epidemiology; Health and hygiene
First sentence: WHILE HEALTH status in the United States has improved throughout this century, and has continued to improved during the 1990s, disparities in health status still exist across various segments of the population.
Description: This book explores the work that is being done to understand the health care needs and effective health care strategies for groups that are more vulnerable to poor health care outcomes than the population as a whole.