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    Eliminating healthcare disparities in America : beyond the IOM report / edited by Richard Allen Williams.

    • Title:Eliminating healthcare disparities in America : beyond the IOM report / edited by Richard Allen Williams.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Williams, Richard Allen, 1936-
    • Published/Created:Totowa, N.J. : Humana, ©2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Discrimination in medical care.
      Health services accessibility.
      Minorities--Medical care.
      Race discrimination.
      Racism--Cross-cultural studies.
      Social medicine.
    • Medical Subjects: Health Services Accessibility--United States.
      Ethnic Groups--United States.
      Minority Groups--United States.
      Delivery of Health Care--United States.
      Quality of Health Care--United States.
    • Description:xxviii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • 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.
    • ISBN:9781934115428 (alk. paper)
      1934115428 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:I. Underlying causes of healthcare disparities
      1. Historical perspectives on healthcare disparities : is the past prologue? / Richard Allen Williams
      2. Epidemiology of racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare / George A. Mensah and 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: lessons from the IOM report "Unequal treatment" / Joseph R. Betancourt and Angela Maina
      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
      7. The diversity benefit: how does diversity among health professionals address public needs? / 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: a call for state healthcare anti-discrimination law / Vernellia R. Randall
      10. Quality of care and health disparities: the evolving role of government / Garth N. Graham
      11. The role of communities in eliminating healthcare disparities: getting down to the grass roots / JudyAnn 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: tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project / Nancy Krieger ... [et a.]
      14. The Association of Black Cardiologists: a small-group success story / Richard Allen Williams
      15. Breathe easy in Seattle: addressing asthma disparities through healthier housing / James W. Krieger ... [et al.]
      16. Access Health Solutions: a minority physician network model that works / Kathy B. Jackson
      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
      V. Concluding recommendations
      18. Principles for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare / John Z. Ayanian and Richard Allen Williams.
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