The Health Disparities Myth.The Health Disparities
Health disparities (also called health inequalities in some countries) refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Myth Jonathan Klick Jonathan Klick is an American economist who has written numerous works on empirical law and economics. His scholarship addresses tort liability and moral hazard, criminal punishment, health regulation, and business regulation. & Sally Satel American Enterprise Institue Press 1150 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 0844771929 $15.00 www.aei.org Expertly co-authored by Jonathan Klick (Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Laq at the Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. in Tallahassee, Florida For other uses, see Tallahassee (disambiguation). Tallahassee is the capital of the State of Florida and the county seat of Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824. As of 2006, the population recorded by the U.S. ) and Sally Satel (Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institutes and staff psychiatrist for the Oasis Clinic in Washington D.C.), The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing The Treatment Gap is an iconoclastic i·con·o·clast n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. study of the differentials and variables in treatment of hospital patients and the prejudice which doctors may have in their treatment choices based upon race. Delving into a deeply profound investigation of the realities for which patients really are treated, The Health Disparities Myth comprehensively guides readers through its exclusive perceptive analysis of health care, race, socioeconomic, geographic, and ethnic factors in the fair or otherwise treatment of hospital patients. The Health Disparities Myth is very strongly recommended to students of medicine, sociology, health care systems, and the ethics of medical treatment related to hospital care. |
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