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Title Race, ethnicity, gender, and other social characteristics as factors in health and health care disparities / edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (Arizona State University, USA)
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (240 pages)
Series Research in the sociology of health care ; 38
Research in the sociology of health care ; v. 38.
Contents Part 1 Race and Ethnicity in the US Context. -- The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Health Disparities among Asian Americans / Hyunsu Oh -- Mental Health Disparities in Children of Caribbean Immigrants : How Racial/Ethnic Self-identification Informs the Association between Perceived Discrimination and Depressive Symptomatology / Fabrice Stanley Julien and Patricia Drentea -- Healthcare Utilization, Diabetes Prevalence, and Comorbidities : Examining Sex Differences among American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples / Kimberly R. Huyser, Jennifer Rockell, Charlton Wilson, Spero M. Manson and Joan O'Connell -- ER Use among Older Adult RHC Medicare Beneficiaries in the Southeastern United States / Matt T. Bagwell and Thomas T.H. Wan -- Barriers to Healthcare Access for a Native American Tribe in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States -- Part 2 Gender. / Jessica L. Liddell -- Hyperemesis Gravidarum : What to Expect when You are ExpectingNot! / Roksana Badruddoja -- Social Status and White Fragility : Gender and Socioeconomic Variations / Andrew H. Mannheimer, Adrienne N. Milner, Kelsey E. Gonzalez and Terrence D. Hill -- The Intersection of Social Determinants of Health and Adverse Childhood Experiences for Incarcerated Women in San Bernardino County -- Part 3 Hospitals and Health-care Spending. / Nicole Henley and Annika Y. Anderson -- Coercive Conformity : Does Mandated Reporting of Hospital Errors Improve Patient Safety? / Maureen Walsh Koricke and Teresa L. Scheid -- It's the Politics, Stupid : Why More "Skin in the Game" Will Not Help Control US Healthcare Spending -- Part 4 Research from India. / Claudia Chaufan -- Exploring the Experiences of Family Caregivers of Older People in Residential Academic Campus of Higher Education in India / Tulika Bhattacharyya, Suhita Chopra Chatterjee and Debolina Chatterjee -- Why do AIDS Sufferers on Antiretroviral Therapy Die Early? Evidence from Jharkhand in India / Rajeev Kumar, Damodar Suar, Sanjay Kumar Singh and Sangeeta Das Bhattacharya
Summary The contributors to this latest volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care investigate race, ethnicity and gender as factors in health and health care disparities. Looking specifically at the factors that impact race and ethnicity in a US context, gender issues, hospitals and health care spending, and research from India. Chapters focus on linkages to health disparities among races, health experiences for incarcerated women and issues of hospital and health care spending
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Public health -- Social aspects
Ethnic groups.
Healthcare Disparities
Gender Equity
Race Factors
Ethnicity
ethnic groups.
Medical sociology.
Medical, Public Health.
Ethnic groups
Public health -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Kronenfeld, Jennie J., editor.
ISBN 9781839827983
183982798X
9781839828003
1839828005