Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform

Building upon the success of Dr. Williams's widely influential book Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report, this new volume takes a fresh and timely look at the state of healthcare reform and the progress and problems we face in the pursuit of healthcare equality. This book focuses on how the elimination of disparities can be accomplished through targeted efforts made within the context of reform.

Comprising the combined efforts of the nation's best health policy analysts, researchers, key opinion leaders and clinicians, this book addresses both current and impending legislation and future movements in healthcare. With the knowledge that the problem of disparities extends beyond the present political arena into the larger scope of all aspects of healthcare delivery, the authors provide critical analysis of the causation of disparities, insightful examples of what has worked, and a striking call to action with implementable strategies for advancing equality.

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Introduction.- Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?.- Epidemiology Profiles of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare.- Cultural Diversity in Medicine: Health Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities.- Perspective: Healthcare and the Politics of Race.- Perspective: The Spectrum of Healthcare Disparities in the United States.- Perspective: Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice: Lessons From the IOM Report Unequal Treatment.- Perspective: Second-Class Medicine: Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to Healthcare.- Perspective: The Compelling Need for Health Literacy.- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Overview of the Health Reform Law and Its Impact on Healthcare Disparities.- The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs?.- The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots.- The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare.- Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement.- Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools from the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project.- Perspective: Title VI, Healthcare Reform, and the Need for a State Anti-Discrimination Law.- Quality of Care and Disparities: The Evolving Role of Government.- The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small Group Success Story in Addressing Healthcare Disparities.- Breathing Easier in Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing.- Breast and Prostate Cancer Healthcare Disparities.- The Role of Health IT in Eliminating Disparities.- Remote Area Medical: Pioneers of No Cost Healthcare.- Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Under Healthcare Reform