TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Preface A1 - King, Talmadge E. A1 - Wheeler, Margaret B. Y1 - 2016 N1 - T2 - Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e AB - In the near decade since we published the first edition of this book, research has firmly established that populations of lower socioeconomic status and from minority racial and ethnic backgrounds have worse health and often receive a lower standard of health care. Worse health out comes attributed to inequity in distribution of resources, initially termed disparities in health and health care, are now more aptly and pointedly referred to as inequities in health and health care. These inequities are attributed to broad social forces that shape the way we live and how medicine is practiced. With this perspective, a person's and a community's health and the health care they receive are measures of social justice. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1134128409 ER -