Health disparities in the United States : social class, race, ethnicity, and health /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the social roots of health disparities
- What is "health"? how should we define it? how should we measure it?
- The relationship between socioeconomic status and health, or, "they call it 'poor health' for a reason"
- Understanding how low social status leads to poor health
- Race, ethnicity, and health
- Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and health : which is more important in affecting health status?
- Children's health disparities
- All things being equal ... does race/ethnicity affect how physicians treat patients?
- Why does race/ethnicity affect the way physicians treat patients?
- When, if ever, is it appropriate to use a patient's race/ethnicity to guide medical decisions?
- What should we do to reduce health disparities?