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Author:
Cooper, Lisa A., author. 5943
Title:
Why are health disparities everyone's problem? / Lisa Cooper.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xxv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Subject:
Health services accessibility--United States.
Medical policy--Social aspects--United States.
Health Status Disparities.
Vulnerable Populations.
Health Equity.
Healthcare Disparities.
MEDICAL / Public Health.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The "Personhood" of Patients -- The Patient-Physician Relationship -- Developing Solutions to Health Care Disparities -- The Center for Health Equity -- From Research to Practice and Policy -- A Global Perspective on Health Equity -- Health Equity in the Era of Covid-19.
Summary:
"The author considers an array of factors that produce health inequities, including social conditions, economic policies, the physical environment, institutional factors, health system factors, social relationships, risk behaviors, and biological factors. The author argues that everyone's health is connected, both within their communities and across the globe. Once people realize that, they will see that health inequities are not someone else's problem; rather, they are everyone's problem"--
Series:
Johns Hopkins wavelengths
ISBN:
1421441152
9781421441153
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1182513867
LCCN:
2020052638
Locations:
I6OX771 -- Mercy College Library (Des Moines)

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