The Challenges of Health Disparities

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The Challenges of Health Disparities is written by Darren Liu and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 128418031X (ISBN 10) and 9781284180312 (ISBN 13).

This unique text explores health disparities in the United States and their implications from the perspective of a health care administration The book begins with a broad overview of health disparities including definitions from local, state, and federal legislation, as well as alternative definitions. The authors examine current and past frameworks of analysis regarding the causes of disparities and provide a statistical overview of death rates and their implications for health care administrators. In the final section of the book, each chapter looks at health disparities within each type of health care environment such as physician practices, hospitals, pharmaceutical products, Medicare/Medicaid, long-term care, insurance markets, and more.