TY - BOOK ID - 53504328 TI - Health care services, racial and ethnic minorities and underserved populations PY - 2009 SN - 9781849503723 1849503729 0762312491 9786610631841 1280631848 0080457991 9780080457994 9780762312498 PB - Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited DB - UniCat KW - Discrimination in medical care. KW - Minorities KW - Health services accessibility. KW - Medical policy. KW - Health care policy KW - Health policy KW - Medical care KW - Medicine and state KW - Policy, Medical KW - Public health KW - Public health policy KW - State and medicine KW - Science and state KW - Social policy KW - Access to health care KW - Accessibility of health services KW - Availability of health services KW - Race discrimination in medical care KW - Medical care. KW - Government policy KW - Access KW - Health and hygiene KW - Health systems & services. KW - USA. KW - Medical KW - Health Care Delivery. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:53504328 AB - The theme of this volume is "Health Care Services, Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Undeserved Populations: Patient and Provider Perspectives". The volume is divided into five sections. The first section discusses the overall issue of health care disparities and undeserved populations and also provides introductory material about the rest of the volume. The next section focuses on issues that relate to gender. The third section provides papers on some other specific examples of undeserved populations: those with mental health concerns, those with concerns related to emotional well being, the elderly population and sex workers.The fourth section includes papers that discuss treatment disparities and providers of care. The final section includes papers that relate to policy concerns. The topic of health care services and undeserved populations is one of growing importance within the US health care system and one of importance in health care systems across the world. Concern about equity in health care is not new. There is a long tradition in medical sociology of studies of inequities in health status and use of health care services. Over the past ten to twenty years, there have been many studies that have documented that race and socioeconomic status (SES) influence the use of health care services.Within the US in the past decade, this area of concern is often described as studies of health disparities and this volume is a contribution to that research. This volume examines the issue more broadly, by including some issues in countries besides the US and examining the role of providers in treatment disparities and important policy concerns. ER -