Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM ReportRichard Allen Williams 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. |
Contents
Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health | 21 |
Cultural Diversity in Medicine | 41 |
Healthcare and the Politics of Race | 67 |
Medicine for Improving Minority Access to | 99 |
How Does Diversity Among | 121 |
Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality | 141 |
A Call | 179 |
The Evolving | 197 |
The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive | 237 |
Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare | 259 |
A SmallGroup | 307 |
Addressing Asthma Disparities | 313 |
A Minority Physician Network | 341 |
Carolinas Association for Community Health | 365 |
Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities | 377 |
391 | |
Other editions - View all
Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report Richard Allen Williams No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
ABSMs African American allergen areas assess asthma blacks cancer cardiovascular census Center cervical cancer clinical community health culturally competent Department of Health diabetes differences discrimination disparities in health disparities in healthcare diversity drug effect efforts eliminate racial Engl Epstein ethnic disparities ethnic minority evidence federal Geocoding Health Aff Health and Human health disparities health outcomes health plans health professions health status healthcare delivery healthcare providers healthcare system Healthy People 2010 Hispanic hospitals Human Services hypertension impact improve Institute of Medicine interventions IOM Report JAMA Krieger Latino measures Mecklenburg County Medicaid Medicare Minority Health minority patients minority populations mortality myocardial infarction National organizations performance incentive programs physicians prevalence race and ethnicity race/ethnicity racial and ethnic racial disparities racial/ethnic racism rates reduce risk factors social socioeconomic whites