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Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey
In 1994, The Commonwealth Fund commissioned Louis Harris and Associated to conduct a survey of some 3,770 African American, Hispanic, Asian American, and white adults regarding thier experiences with health care. Participants were asked to describe their health status and health-related behaviors, their access to and use of health care servuces, their attituted toward the care they recieved, and related socioeconomic datae. The Fund then commissioned experts in minority health, women's health, health care, and health policy to analyze the data, draw policy implications, and make recommendations to improve the health and health care of minority populations.

Minority Health in America assembles timely evidence from a major national survey regarding the different experiences of health care as it is being delivered to various minority members of our society—Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and minority women. It provides the documentation needed to assess the successes and failures of our present system and to chart productive directions for the future.

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Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey
In 1994, The Commonwealth Fund commissioned Louis Harris and Associated to conduct a survey of some 3,770 African American, Hispanic, Asian American, and white adults regarding thier experiences with health care. Participants were asked to describe their health status and health-related behaviors, their access to and use of health care servuces, their attituted toward the care they recieved, and related socioeconomic datae. The Fund then commissioned experts in minority health, women's health, health care, and health policy to analyze the data, draw policy implications, and make recommendations to improve the health and health care of minority populations.

Minority Health in America assembles timely evidence from a major national survey regarding the different experiences of health care as it is being delivered to various minority members of our society—Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and minority women. It provides the documentation needed to assess the successes and failures of our present system and to chart productive directions for the future.

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Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey

Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey

Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey

Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey

Overview

In 1994, The Commonwealth Fund commissioned Louis Harris and Associated to conduct a survey of some 3,770 African American, Hispanic, Asian American, and white adults regarding thier experiences with health care. Participants were asked to describe their health status and health-related behaviors, their access to and use of health care servuces, their attituted toward the care they recieved, and related socioeconomic datae. The Fund then commissioned experts in minority health, women's health, health care, and health policy to analyze the data, draw policy implications, and make recommendations to improve the health and health care of minority populations.

Minority Health in America assembles timely evidence from a major national survey regarding the different experiences of health care as it is being delivered to various minority members of our society—Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and minority women. It provides the documentation needed to assess the successes and failures of our present system and to chart productive directions for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801862991
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 02/18/2000
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Carol J. R. Hogue, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Terry Professor of Maternal and Child Health, professor of epidemiology, and director of the Women's and Children's Center at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.

Martha A. Hargraves, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

Karen Scott Collins, M.D., M.P.H., is assistant vice president of The Commonwealth Fund.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Chapter 1. The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey of 1994: An Overview
Chapter 2. Hispanics' Experience Within the Health Care System: Access, Utilization, and Satisfaction
Chapter 3. A Profile of African Americans' Health Care: Subgroup Differences in Need and Access
Chapter 4. Access to Health Care Among Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Americans
Chapter 5. Health Care for African American and Hispanic Women: Report on Perceived Health Status, Access to Care, and Utilization Patterns
Chapter 6. Financial Barriers for Working-Age Minority Populations: Poverty and Beyond
Chapter 7. Uninsurance and Its Impact on Access to Health Care: What Are the Challenges for Policy?
Chapter 8. Satisfaction With Care in Minority Populations
Chapter 9. Limited Choices for Medical Care Among Minority Populations
Chapter 10. Social Status and Perceived Discrimination: Who Experiences Discrimination in the Health Care System, How, and Why?
Chapter 11. Race, Stress, and Mental Health
Chapter 12. Eating Well, Exercising, and Avoiding Smoking: Health Promotion Among Men and Women in Minority Populations
Chapter 13. A Look to the Future
Technical Appendix
Author Index
Subject Index

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From the Publisher

Minority Health in America addresses an important health services research and health policy issue regarding health care access variations for ethnic and racial minorities in the United States, the factors that account for these variations, and their likely health and policy consequences. There is no other source at present that assembles evidence from a recent national survey to address the array of access questions posed in this book, particularly in the context of the dynamically changing managed care-dominated health care environment.
—Lu Ann Aday, University of Texas School of Public Health

Lu Ann Aday

Minority Health in America addresses an important health services research and health policy issue regarding health care access variations for ethnic and racial minorities in the United States, the factors that account for these variations, and their likely health and policy consequences. There is no other source at present that assembles evidence from a recent national survey to address the array of access questions posed in this book, particularly in the context of the dynamically changing managed care-dominated health care environment.

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