دانلود کتاب Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform

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Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: An Overview of the US Healthcare System and US Health Disparities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 3-6
Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?....Pages 7-21
Epidemiologic Profiles of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care....Pages 23-39
Cultural Diversity in Medicine: Health Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities....Pages 41-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Perspective: Health Care and the Politics of Race....Pages 71-84
Perspective: The Spectrum of Health-care Disparities in the USA....Pages 85-95
Perspective: Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice – Lessons from the IOM Report “Unequal Treatment”....Pages 97-114
Perspective: Second-Class Medicine – Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to Health Care....Pages 115-134
Perspective: The Compelling Need for Health Literacy....Pages 135-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Overview of the Health Reform Law and Its Impact on Health-Care Disparities....Pages 145-165
The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs?....Pages 167-193
The Role of Communities in Eliminating Health Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots....Pages 195-209
The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Health Care....Pages 211-229
Eliminating Disparities in Health Care Through Quality Improvement....Pages 231-267
Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project....Pages 269-312
Perspective: Title VI, Healthcare Reform, and the Need for a State Antidiscrimination Law....Pages 313-328
Quality of Care and Health Disparities: The Evolving Role of the Government....Pages 329-349
The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small-Group Success Story in Addressing Healthcare Disparities....Pages 351-357
Breathing Easier in Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing....Pages 359-383
Breast and Prostate Cancer Healthcare Disparities....Pages 385-397
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Role of Health IT in Eliminating Health Disparities....Pages 399-412
Remote Area Medical ® : Pioneers of No-Cost Health Care....Pages 413-420
Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Under Healthcare Reform....Pages 421-432
Back Matter....Pages 433-445