Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report

Softcover: 500 pages
ISBN 1617379344
978-1617379345
Springer-Verlag New York
December 2010
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"Richard Allen Williams has assembled a diverse group of contributors – academic researchers, activists, frontline practitioners, and officials of public health agencies – to produce what could have been a sort of interim progress report on the attempt to achieve racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic equity in the quality of health care. … the core of this collection, offer much that will be of interest to those who are not familiar with the field." (H. Jack Geiger, The New England Journal of Medicine, March)

"In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities In America: Beyond the IOM Report, Richard A. Williams has assembled a fine collection of articles that thoughtfully address the issue of health care disparities in the aftermath of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Unequal Treatment. I recommend the book to experts and novices interested in the topic. The book is divided into 5 sections … ." (Darrell J. Gaskin, Journal of the American Medical Association)

"Dr. Richard Allen Williams provides a timely text that illuminates the issue of healthcare disparities in a clear and concise format. … This extraordinary presentation of disparities which has as its first reference, the Bible, is a must read for anyone interested in African American history. … this timely book is a must read for anyone interested in healthcare disparities and all healthcare providers and administrators in the healthcare field." (Elise D. Cook, JAMA)

Topics covered in this book through scholarly contributions include these:

Underlying Causes of Healthcare Disparities
Historical Perspectives on Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?
Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare
Cultural Diversity in Medicine and in Healthcare Delivery
Current Problems
Healthcare and the Politics of Race
Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice: Lessons From the IOM Report
Second-Class Medicine: Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to the Correct Pharmaceutical Therapy
The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs?
Approaches to Correcting the Problems
The Role of Health Plans in Eliminating Disparities
Eliminating Healthcare Disparities Through Quality Improvement
Eliminating Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: A Call for State Healthcare Anti-Discrimination Law
Quality of Care and Health Disparities: The Evolving Role of Government
The Role of Communities in Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare: Getting Down to the Grass Roots
The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare
Examples of What Works
Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities : Tools From the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small-Group Success Story
Breathe Easy In Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing
Access Health Solutions: A Minority Physician Network Model That Works
Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE: A Role Model for Community Health Organizations
Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare

In this book, Dr. Richard Allen Williams has assembled the very best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public consciousness of this issue. Arranged into discrete categories, this volume contains comprehensive coverage, both historical and current, of the healthcare disparity crisis currently plaguing our country in hopes of leading us all to a brighter future.

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