Health disparities in the United States : social class, race, ethnicity, and the social determinants of health / Donald A. Barr.
Publisher's description: With extensive new data, Donald A. Barr illuminates the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate health disparities in the United States. This thoroughly updated edition focuses on a new challenge the United States last experi...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | Third 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?