Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Human Rights and WellnessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Investigation Into Health Care Disparities of U.S. Pacific Island Territories
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Human Rights and WellnessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Investigation Into Health Care Disparities of U.S. Pacific Island Territories
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Human Rights and WellnessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Activities of the House Committee on Government Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government ReformPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
House Reports
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Unequal Treatment
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030908265X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients' and providers' attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. How to intervene? Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The committee highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve provider-patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color.
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government ReformPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309140129
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused on where interventions might be best applied, and on planning and evaluating those efforts to inform the development of policy and the application of resources. A lack of standardization of categories for race, ethnicity, and language data has been suggested as one obstacle to achieving more widespread collection and utilization of these data. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement.
The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population
Author: Elizabeth M. GriecoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demographic surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
This report, part of a series that analyzes population and housing data collected from Census 2000, provides a portrait of the Pacific Islander population in the United States and discusses its distribution at both the national and subnational levels.
Epidemiologic Analysis with a Programmable Calculator
Author: Kenneth J. RothmanPublisher: Kenneth Rothman
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Closing the Gap in a Generation
Author: WHO Commission on Social Determinants of HealthPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241563702
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.