RT Book, Section
A1 King, Talmadge E.
A1 Wheeler, Margaret B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1134128409
T1 Preface
T2 Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071834445
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1134128409
RD 2024/04/18
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.