A monumental compendium on one of the most crucial topics confronting those in public health and health policy, Race, Ethnicity, and Health brings together the best peer reviewed research literature from the leading scholars and faculty in this growing field. This original and much-needed resource will be invaluable to graduate students and researchers alike. The book provides a historical and political context for the study of health, race, and ethnicity, with key findings on disparities in access, use, and quality. This volume also examines the role of health care providers in health disparities and discusses the issue of matching patients and doctors by race.
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"This critical selection of hallmark articles effectively addresses health disparities in America and should be required reading for students, teachers, and professionals in public health."
— Ronald Braithwaite, Ph.D., professor, department of behavioral sciences and health education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
— Ronald Braithwaite, Ph.D., professor, department of behavioral sciences and health education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
"This reader compellingly documents one of the great unfinished tasks of American medicine and public healthequal treatment and equal health status for minorities. Every health worker, professional, and student, alike, should read it as an essential first step in understanding and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in care."
— H. Jack Geiger, M.D., Logan Professor of Community Medicine, Emeritus, City University of New York Medical School
"This book will be a unique resource for faculty and students in public health as well as faculty and students from diverse social science fields interested in applied health issues in communities of color. I also think it will be valuable to public health administrators and frontline staff who serve diverse racial and ethnic populations."
— Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
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For everyone interested in health care,
By Nancy Rudner Lugo (Maitland, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader (Paperback)
This readable compendium of stellar research is important reading for anyone involved in or interested in health care today. It is also an escellent compilation of well-designed studies that challenge status quo thinking; it would be an excellent text for a research methodology course. This Public Health reader is also appropiratie for individual readings as well as a text for courses in nursing, medicine, public health, social policy, and health care administration. The readings are compelling, disturbing, and encouraging. The book does a good job of addressing historical and political factors, presenting startling health disparity data, documenting differential health care experiences, demonstrating health care provider biases in perceptions of patients and subsequent treatment, and outlining related research challenges. The book leaves the reader wtih a fresh understanding of national health disparies, the issues our nation faces in achieving better health for all, and the need for proactrve policies, procedures, and research that can close the gap between majority and minority health and health care,
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This review is from: Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader (Paperback)
A very comprehensive overview of the issues around minority health in the United States. Does not deal with international issues, but the topic of race, ethnitity and health in the US is big enough. You are interested in learning about the topic, this is a very good place to start. You will be depressed after reading some of this. The studies described in the book are convincing and you can't help but conclude that we have a serious problem with regard to minority health.
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This review is from: Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader (Paperback)
We used this book in my class at this past semester. It was a good overview of the key studies in health disparities. I learned alot about health disparities. Overall I found this book to be a good resource for my class.
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From Nat Turner's revolt in 1831 to the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, doctors in the Untied States made it their business to be involved in the great debate about slavery. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
singleton first births, participatory visits, maternal nativity status, racial concordance, personally mediated racism, opioid supplies, prenatal care receipt, salmon bias hypothesis, healthy migrant hypothesis, intragroup racism, receiving preventive care, assigning racial status, nativity differentials, food service places, neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics, use data tape documentation, infant mortality race disparity, gender concordance, maternal age patterns, inverse association between socioeconomic status, selected odds ratios, postpartum survey, social problem symptoms, nonwhite patients, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, United States, New York, John Henryism, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Los Angeles, Government Printing Office, Med Care, Pacific Islanders, Soc Sci Med, Latin American, Ethn Dis, San Antonio, Bureau of the Census, Ann Intern Med, Health Soc Behav, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institute, North Carolina, San Francisco, District of Columbia, Oxford University Press, Prev Med, Ann Epidemiol New!
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From Nat Turner's revolt in 1831 to the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, doctors in the Untied States made it their business to be involved in the great debate about slavery. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
singleton first births, participatory visits, maternal nativity status, racial concordance, personally mediated racism, opioid supplies, prenatal care receipt, salmon bias hypothesis, healthy migrant hypothesis, intragroup racism, receiving preventive care, assigning racial status, nativity differentials, food service places, neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics, use data tape documentation, infant mortality race disparity, gender concordance, maternal age patterns, inverse association between socioeconomic status, selected odds ratios, postpartum survey, social problem symptoms, nonwhite patients, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, United States, New York, John Henryism, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Los Angeles, Government Printing Office, Med Care, Pacific Islanders, Soc Sci Med, Latin American, Ethn Dis, San Antonio, Bureau of the Census, Ann Intern Med, Health Soc Behav, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institute, North Carolina, San Francisco, District of Columbia, Oxford University Press, Prev Med, Ann Epidemiol New!
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- Health, United States, 2000 (with Adolescent Health Chartbook) by Human Services Staff on page 305, page 375, and page 383
- Health, United States, 1998 : Socioeconomic Status and Health Chartbook (s/n 017-022-01422-0) by National Center for Health Statistics on page 305, page 381, and page 386
- Health Services Research: An Anthology Sic Pub No. 534 (PAHO Scientific Publications) by K. White in Table of Contents, Front Matter, and page 127
- Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs: Reports on Managed Care by American Medical Association on page 42, page 428, and page 638
- Health Services Research: Report of a Study (IOM publication ; 78-06) by Institute of Medicine (U. S.) in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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