Health Challenges in Diversity

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF VULNERABLE AND UNDERSERVED PATIENTS: PRINCIPLES, PRACTICE AND POPULATIONS

Author: Talmadge E. King Jr. & 6 more

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical

ISBN-13: 978-0071834445 

This volume is designed to clarify current issues and instruct you in best practices and compliance with legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act, when caring for patients living with chronic diseases in poor and minority populations. Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients is ideally suited for clinical and educational programs and policy-oriented institutions concerned with addressing health disparities and caring for the underserved and vulnerable patient. This book takes complex concepts and issues and serves as “roadmap” to guide real-world applications and compliance with the terms of the law.

MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS: THE EPIDEMIOLOGICALLY BASED NEEDS ASSESSMENT REVIEWS, VOL.1

Author: Julia D. Buckner & 2 more

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN-13: 978-1846190940

Mental health care needs vary in different groups of people, but many healthcare professionals have a poor understanding of exactly how. From ethnicity to sexuality, family to religion, “Mental Health Care for People of Diverse Backgrounds” is a unique examination of how cultures can, and should, influence psychological services. It presents both theoretical and practical information regarding assessment, diagnosis and treatment. Concentrating on empirically based treatments, the book fuses clinical experience and research to give a wide-ranging overview. It also features many illuminating case studies.

HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES: SOCIAL CLASS, RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Author: Donald A. Barr

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-13: 978-1421432588

The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this book, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities. Examining the significance of this gulf for the medical community and society at large, Barr offers potential policy- and physician-based solutions for reducing health inequity in the long term.

CARING FOR AND UNDERSTANDING LATINX PATIENTS IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS

Author: Laura Maria Pigozzi

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN-13: 978-1785928093

This concise and instructive guide outlines the specific challenges faced by the Latinx population in US health care, including language barriers, unfamiliarity with the medical system, lack of insurance, access issues, monetary factors, and most importantly the fears surrounding undocumented immigrants. It shows how health care professionals and chaplains can support and care for the Latinx population offering advice on health disparities, the importance of the family, and spirituality and religion. This inclusive guide improves cultural competency among non-Latinx care staff and offers case studies and practical tips to input straight into practice.

Health Equity From The University of North Carolina Press

IN PURSUIT OF HEALTH EQUITY – A HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MEDICINE

Author: Eric D. Carter

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7445-2 

Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements. Nevertheless, it has been an elusive subject: hard to define, with puzzling historical discontinuities and misconceptions about its origins. Drawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day.

UNDERSTANDING HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND JUSTICE – NEW CONVERSATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES

Edited by: Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, Rebecca L. Walker

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 

ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3035-9

The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care.

Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice explores three questions: How do scholars approach relations between health inequalities and ideals of justice? When do justice considerations inform solutions to health inequalities, and how do specific health inequalities affect perceptions of injustice? And how can diverse scholarly approaches contribute to better health policy?

LANDSCAPES OF CARE – IMMIGRATION AND HEALTH IN RURAL AMERICA

Author: Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7417-9

Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Sangaramoorthy connects the Eastern Shore and its immigrant populations to many other places around the world that are struggling with the challenges of global migration, rural precarity, and health governance. Her extensive ethnographic and policy research shows the personal stories behind health inequity data and helps to give readers a human entry point into the enormous challenges of immigration and rural health.

CULTURE IN THE CLINIC

Authors: Catherine Mas

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7098-0

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami. With this influx, the city's health care system was overwhelmed not just by the number of patients but also by the differences in culture. Mainstream medicine was often inaccessible or inadequate to Miami’s growing community of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. Instead, many sought care from alternative, often unlicensed health practitioners. Catherine Mas shows how immigrants reshaped American medicine while the clinic became a crucial site for navigating questions of wellness, citizenship, and culture.