Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare by Louis W. Sullivan (auth.), Richard Allen Williams (eds.)

By Louis W. Sullivan (auth.), Richard Allen Williams (eds.)

Building upon the luck of Dr. Williams's greatly influential ebook casting off Healthcare Disparities in the USA: past the IOM document, this new quantity takes a clean and well timed examine the kingdom of healthcare reform and the development and difficulties we are facing within the pursuit of healthcare equality. This publication makes a speciality of how the removing of disparities should be entire via unique efforts made in the context of reform.

Comprising the mixed efforts of the nation's top wellbeing and fitness coverage analysts, researchers, key opinion leaders and clinicians, this publication addresses either present and forthcoming laws and destiny pursuits in healthcare. With the data that the matter of disparities extends past the current political area into the bigger scope of all elements of healthcare supply, the authors offer severe research of the causation of disparities, insightful examples of what has labored, and a remarkable name to motion with implementable options for advancing equality.

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At about the same time, an important test case went to trial; it was to be the “granddaddy” of all hospital desegregation cases. Entitled Simkins vs. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and originating in Greensboro, North Carolina, this case led to the declaration by the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals that the “separate but equal” portions of Hill-Burton were unconstitutional. Thus ended a 17-year period in which federal funds were used to reinforce hospital segregation. To President Johnson’s credit, Title VI of the new Civil Rights Act that was passed in 1964 prohibited racial discrimination in public accommodations, which included hospitals, and it made “separate but equal” illegal.

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