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. The National Academies Press and the Transportation Research Board have partnered with Copyright Clearance Center to offer a variety of options for reusing our content.
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Overview Contents Resources Rights Stats. 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. Pediatric emergency care. Research on ethnicity and health has increased recently, but there is still comparatively little known about the nuances of ethnicity and how they might influence health and health behaviors. Using … Expand.
Journal of the American Heart Association. Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Journal of the National Medical Association. View 1 excerpt, references background. American heart journal. View 1 excerpt, references results. Impact of availability of hospital-based invasive cardiac services on racial differences in the use of these services. There is still … Expand. Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures.
Are the differences real? Do they matter? The New England journal of medicine. Can characteristics of a health care system mitigate ethnic bias in access to cardiovascular procedures? Experience from the Military Health Services System. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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