Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (with CD) Pdf

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Release: 2002-11-27
Publisher: National Academies Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 030908265X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socio-economic 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 analysed. 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 pr Download Unequal Treatment for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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