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Book
ReviewUnequal Treatment:
Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
By Carl Gilbert, M.D.
Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R.
Nelson, Editors, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and
Ethnic Disparities in Health Care – in partnership with the Board on
Health Policy of the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) of the National
Academies – have published through the National
Academies Press a study named Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.
In 1999, Congress requested IOM to assess the extent
of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by
racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities in the
U.S.
; explore factors that may contribute to inequities in care; and recommend
policies and practices to eliminate the inequities.
The report of the study, published as a book format,
found that many preexisting studies show significant variation in the
rates of medical procedures by race, even when insurance status, income,
age, and severity of conditions are comparable.The study shows furthermore that racial and ethnic minorities in
the
U.S.
are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures and experience
a lower quality of health services.
For reducing those disparities, the authors of the
report made some recommendations, such as increasing awareness about
disparities among the general public, health care providers, insurance
companies, and policy-makers.
This book will certainly find a significant place
among other reference texts that address and ponder the health gap issues
plaguing the American society.
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