Titlebook: Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America; Beyond the IOM Repor Richard Allen Williams (Clinical Professor of Medi Book 2007 Humana Pre

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06934-6d States. The number of Asian Americans grew at a larger proportion (9%) than any other racial or ethnic group during this same time period. And in at least three states (California, Hawaii, and New Mexico) and the District of Columbia, racial and ethnic “minorities” constitute a majority of the population (.).

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Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparitiesn what Byrd and Clayton have termed the . originated and was nourished. In this chapter, the concept that slavery gave rise to a racist system of healthcare delivery is explored, and the observation that this system is still operative is documented by several pointed examples.

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Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcareecently, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (.) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (.) have confirmed that such disparities are pervasive but improvements are possible. Eliminating these disparities is one of the two over-arching goals of the Healthy People 2010 national public health a

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Healthcare and the Politics of Raceogressives intent on “outing” racism have sent forth their share. In this chapter, I devote some effort to flushing them out. But my larger aim is to understand the competing moral premises that drive the politics of healthcare disparity. At the bottom, I contend, arguments about the scope of dispar