Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities / Edition 1

by David Satcher, Rubens J. Pamies

Overview

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An essential guide to clinical issues encountered during management of patients of varied cultural and economic backgrounds

This essential text assists health care students and practitioners in delivering skilled and appropriate care to all patients, no matter their ethnicity, country of origin, cultural history, or access to services. Presenting need-to-know and often hard to find information on differences in access to heath care, immunization histories, disease prevalence, attitudes about health and provision of care, and much more, this resource provides practical, authoritative, and specific guidance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071436809
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/22/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	500
Sales rank:	1,090,225
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

David Satcher, MD, PhD
Former US Surgeon General
Formerly: Director, CDC
Currently: Director, National Center for Primary Care Medicine
Morehouse Medical School
Board of Directors, Johnson and Johnson Inc.

Rubens J. Pamies, MD
Chairman of Medicine
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, Tennessee

Table of Contents

1. Immigration Pattern and Demographic Changes and Its Impact on U.S. Health
2.
Cultural Competencies in Clinical Medicine: The Patient Encounter
3. The Impact of Culture on Health Outcomes
4. Compliance with Medical Treatment
5. Immunization and Preventive Health Care
6. Obesity and Nutrition
7. Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension
8. Diabetes
9. Oncology
10. Hemoglobinopathies
11. Pregnancy, Prenatal Healthcare, and the Newborn
12. Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence
13. The AIDS Epidemic and Other Infectious Diseases in the Underserved and Minority Population
14. Transplantation and Organ Donation
15. Stress and Mental Health
16. Pain Management
17. Bioterrorism
18. Participation of Minorities in Research and Clinical Trial – Lingering Impact of Tuskegee or New Concerns
19. The Role of Different Provider Types in Cultural Medicine
20. The Role of Government and Social Programs on Health Outcome in the Minority /Underserved Community
21. The Future of Health Care The Cost of No Change

Editorial Reviews

"Former Surgeon General David Satcher and Rubens J. Pamies...have recruited 81 scholars — epidemiologists, demographers, clinicians, health service researchers, behavioral scientists, and others — from more than 40 academic medical centers, government agencies, research institutions, foundations, and think tanks....The result is a book that is well documented, lucid, comprehensive, and easily accessible — owing in no small measure to an inspired use of tables and figures to summarize evidence...this book should be on the desks — not the shelves — of physicians, students of the health professions, policymakers, and legislators."—New England Journal of Medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

"This single volume, edited by David Satcher and Rubens Pamies, focuses primarily on racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States. Discussion of health care disparities is woven into many of the book's 34 chapters....I am confident that [this book] will serve as a valuable reference source for researchers and policy makers and as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate students for the remainder of the decade."—Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of American Medical Association