Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world, but many of its residents cannot afford or do not have access to adequate care. Health Disparities in the United States explores how socioeconomic status, race, and ethnic make-up affect health disparities; what the wide gulf in care and health outcomes means for the medical community, cultural subsets, and society at large; and how to address the issue effectively. |
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Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity You probably didn't realize that when you graduate from college you increase your lifespan, or that your co-worker who has a slightly better job is more likely to live a healthier life. In this groundbreaking book, epidemiologist Michael Marmot marshals evidence from nearly thirty years of research to demonstrate that status is not a footnote to the causes of ill health—it is the cause. He calls this effect the status syndrome. The Status Syndrome is pervasive. It determines the chances that you will succumb to heart disease, stroke, cancers, infectious diseases, even suicide and homicide. And the issue, as Marmot shows, is not simply one of income or lifestyle. |
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Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations (2nd ed.) The thoroughly updated Second Edition of Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations grounds readers in the understanding that health promotion programs in multicultural settings require an in-depth knowledge of the cultural group being targeted. Numerous advances and improvements in theory and practice in health promotion and disease prevention (HPDP) are presented. Editors Michael V. Kline and Robert M. Huff have expanded the book to include increased attention directed to students and instructors while also continuing to provide a handbook for practitioners in the field. This book combines the necessary pedagogical features of a textbook with the scholarship found in a traditional handbook. Several new chapters have been added early in the text to provide stronger foundations for understanding the five sections that follow. |
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Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health 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. |
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In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health-Care Workforce In the Nation's Compelling Interest considers the benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity, and identifies institutional and policy-level mechanisms to garner broad support among health professions leaders, community members, and other key stakeholders to implement these strategies. Assessing the potential benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity among health professionals will improve the access to and quality of healthcare for all Americans. |
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Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America, Dr. Richard Allen Williams assembles the very best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public consciousness of this issue. These experts provide the benefits of their experience and expertise as a resource for helping others to make judicious determinations about how to proceed in efforts to improve the disparities in American healthcare. Arranged into discrete categories, this volume contains comprehensive coverage, both historical and current, of the healthcare disparity crisis currently plaguing our country in hopes of leading us all to a brighter future. |
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Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them would apply to the rest of the population. But struggles involving advocacy groups, experts, and Congress led to reforms that forced researchers to diversify the population from which they drew for clinical research. |
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans, from the era of slavery to today. Washington details the ways both slaves and freedmen have been used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge. |
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What If? Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue Hiring and retaining the best and brightest talent is what defines market leadership today. And in the global marketplace winning the war for talent means embracing differences, discovering other worldviews, and reframing our organizations for competitive advantage. What If? delivers a creative and innovative way to explore the issues that dominate today's multicultural workplace: leadership and mentoring, creativity and innovation, organizational culture and engagement. In 25 inspiring stories-some deeply personal-Steve Robbins offers fresh insight into the real and meaningful differences among people and how the power of everyday experiences can be the catalyst for seeing the world through a different lens. |
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Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World: The Hard Truth about Soft Skills in the Workplace Harness the power of human emotions to leverage the differences people bring to the workplace. Encountering generational, cultural, language and behavioral differences in today's global workplace occurs nearly every hour of every day. From here to Dubai or in the conference room down the hall, anger and frustration come easily when others don't do things our way, follow directions, or respond the way we think they should. And when emotions manage workplace relationships, conflict, disengagement, and low morale result. Answering the call for fresh insight into what it takes to effectively manage in this complex landscape, Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World brings together a unique combination—the key principles of emotional intelligence and the fundamentals of diversity and difference. |
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Gender, Race, Class, and Health: Intersectional Approaches This book examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. The authors systematically apply social and behavioral science to inspect how these dimensions intersect to influence health and health care in the United States. This examination brings into sharp focus the potential for influencing policy to improve health through a more complete understanding of the structural nature of race, gender, and class disparities in health. As useful as it is readable, this book is ideal for students and professionals in public health, sociology, anthropology, and women's studies. |
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Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options. Detailed ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families experience and reveal the extent of untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, medical indebtedness, and irregular health care that women and children suffer as a result. |
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Building on the Promise of Diversity: How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our Communities, and Our Society Having increased the percentage of minorities in the workplace, we might think our work in the area of diversity is done—but we've hardly started. Building on the Promise of Diversity presents R. Roosevelt Thomas's Strategic Diversity Management approach, a results-focused, five-step process for applying diversity management toward the advancement of organizational and community goals. This is the first major book on the topic in years and it is a crucial milestone in a continuing journey. While some organizations congratulate themselves on their plentiful workplace initiatives, Dr. Thomas argues that we have not done enough to reap the ultimate benefits of diversity. The opportunity is upon us and Building on the Promise of Diversity lays the groundwork for going the next mile. |
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Making Diversity Work: 7 Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace (Rev. and updated. ed.) Fully update and revised, this new edition provides new stories, exercises, and trends, addressing the growing concern about "implicit" or "unconscious" bias. Making Diversity Work offers fresh and fascinating ideas for reducing bias—one person at a time. "Bias lies in every heart and mind—it is also where the answers lie," writes diversity expert Sondra Thiederman. By focusing on the individual, rather than the organization, she defines a powerful focus for bias busting in the workplace. Racial and sexual bias costs big bucks warns Thiederman, citing litigation, lowered sales, and loss of employees and customers. Using case studies, politically incorrect questions, and insightful strategies, she guides readers through "the discomfort of self discovery." |
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Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States This is a textbook that offers a complete foundation in the core issues and theoretical frameworks for the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in health-related outcomes. This book covers U.S. health and social policy, the role of race and ethnicity in health research, social factors contributing to mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services. |
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Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research (2nd ed.) Within an expanding field of study in both undergraduate and graduate nursing curricula, Caring for the Vulnerable explores vulnerability from the perspective of individuals, groups, communities and populations, and addresses the implication of that vulnerability for nurses, nursing, and nursing care. Written specifically for nurses, by nurses, Caring for the Vulnerable is a timely and necessary response to the culturally diverse vulnerable populations for whom nurses must provide appropriate and precise care. The Second Edition includes updated chapters from the first edition as well as sixteen new chapters that allow students and professors to broaden scholarly discussions about vulnerability. |
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