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Paralleling emerging trends in cyber-health technology, concerns are mounting about racial and ethnic disparities in health care utilization and outcomes. This book brings these themes together, challenging readers to use, promote, and develop new technology-based methods for closing these gaps. Edited by a leading urban health advocate and featuring 16 expert contributors, the book examines cyber-strategies with the greatest potential toward effective, equitable care, improved service delivery and better health outcomes for all. The rise of e-Patients and the transformation of the doctor-patient relationship are also discussed.
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Section I.- An Overview of Healthcare Disparities.- Provider Factors in Healthcare Disparities.- Patient Factors in Healthcare Disparities.- Healthcare System Factors in Healthcare Disparities.- The Social “Nonmedical” Determinants of Health.- Section II.- The Role of the Internet in American Life.- The i Health Revolution.- Digital Disparities.- Section III.- The Role of e Health in Patient Engagement and Quality Improvement.- Medical Informatics.- Public Health Informatics.- Section IV.- Beyond Traditional Paradigms in Disparities Research.- Health Information Technology Policy Perspectives and Healthcare Disparities.- Disparities and e Health: Achieving the Promise and the Potential.Over de auteur
Michael Christopher Gibbons is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Assistant Professor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was recently elected President of the International Society for Urban Health.One of Gibbons’s research interests is the development of effective health interventions to reduce health disparities. He is the founding director of the Center for Community Health Education, Advocacy and Leadership Training at Hopkins (HEALTH), is a member of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and was named a Health Disparities Scholar by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.
Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 178 ● ISBN 9780387728155 ● Bestandsgrootte 1.4 MB ● Editor Michael Christopher Gibbons ● Uitgeverij Springer New York ● Stad NY ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2007 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 2145747 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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