Minority health and disparities-related issues.
By: guest editors, Eddie L. Greene, Charles R. Thomas, Jr
Contributors: Greene, Eddie L; Thomas, Charles R., 1957-
Series: Medical clinics of North America -- v. 89, no. 5
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1066
Subjects: Minorities -- Medical care.; Health services accessibility; Medical care -- Needs assessment; Health status indicators
Notes: "September 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Update on disparities in the pathophysiology and management of hypertension: focus on African Americans / Crystal A. Gadegbeku, Janice P. Lea, and Kenneth A. Jamerson; value: Racial disparities affecting the reproductive health of African-American women / Groesbeck P. Parham and Michael L. Hicks; value: Racial disparities in emergency surgical care / David C. Chang, L.D. Britt, and Edward E. Cornwell; value: Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes: focus on ethnic minorities / Leonard E. Egede and Samuel Dagogo-Jack; value: Issues in minority health: atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease in African Americans / Luther T. Clark; value: Health disparities in transplantation: focus on the complexity and challenge of renal transplantation in African Americans / Carlton J. Young and Clifton Kew; value: Is there disparity in the care of minority patients with upper aerodigestive tract malignancy? / Cheryl L. Walker ... [et al.]; value: Prognostic impact of race and ethnicity in the treatment of colorectal cancer / Edith P. Mitchell; value: Erratum