Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report Book

About the Editor     vii
Foreword     ix
Preface     xv
Introduction     xix
Acknowledgments     xxv
Contributors     xxvii
Underlying Causes of Healthcare Disparities
Historical Perspectives on Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?   Richard Allen Williams   M.D     3
Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare   George A. Mensah   M.D.   FACP   FACC   Maleeka J. Glover   ScD   M.P.H     21
Cultural Diversity in Medicine and in Healthcare Delivery   Richard Allen Williams   M.D     41
Current Problems
Healthcare and the Politics of Race   M. Gregg Bloche   M.D.   J.D     67
Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice: Lessons From the IOM Report "Unequal Treatment"   Joseph R. Betancourt   M.D.   M.P.H.   Angela Maina   B.S     83
Second-Class Medicine: Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to the Correct Pharmaceutical Therapy   Randall W. Maxey   M.D.   Ph.D.   Richard Allen Williams   M.D     99
The DiversityBenefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs?   Brian D. Smedley   Ph.D     121
Approaches to Correcting the Problems
Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement   Kevin Fiscella   M.D.   M.P.H     141
Eliminating Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: A Call for State Healthcare Anti-Discrimination Law   Vernellia R. Randall   M.S.N.   J.D.     179
Quality of Care and Health Disparities: The Evolving Role of Government   Garth N. Graham   M.D.   M.P.H.     197
The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots   JudyAnn Bigby   M.D.     221
The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare   Alyna T. Chien   M.D.   M.S.     237
Examples of What Works
Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools From the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project   Nancy Krieger   Ph.D.   Pamela D. Waterman   M.P.H.   Jarvis T. Chen   ScD   S.V. Subramanian   Ph.D.   David H. Rehkopf   ScD     259
The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small-Group Success Story    Richard Allen Williams   M.D.     307
Breathe Easy In Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing   James W. Krieger   M.D.   M.P.H.   Tim K. Takaro   M.D.   M.P.H.   M.S.   Janice C. Rabkin   M.P.H.   Ph.D.     313
Access Health Solutions: A Minority Physician Network Model That Works   Kathy B. Jackson   Ph.D.     341
Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE: A Community Coalition to Address Health Disparities in Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Mecklenburg County North Carolina   Yele Aluko   M.D.     365
Concluding Recommendations
Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare   John Z. Ayanian   M.D.   M.P.P.   Richard Allen Williams   M.D.     377
Index     391