Underlying Causes of Healthcare Disparities -- Historical Perspectives of Healthcare Disparities -- Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare -- Cultural Diversity in Medicine and in Healthcare Delivery -- Current Problems -- Healthcare and the Politics of Race -- Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice -- Second-Class Medicine -- The Diversity Benefit -- Approaches to Correcting the Problems -- Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement -- Eliminating Racial Discrimination in Healthcare -- Quality of Care and Health Disparities -- The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities -- The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare -- Examples of What Works -- Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities -- The Association of Black Cardiologists -- Breathe Easy in Seattle -- Access Health Solutions -- Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE -- Concluding Recommendations -- Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare.

In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America, Dr. Richard Allen Williams assembles the very best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public consciousness of this issue. These experts provide the benefits of their experience and expertise as a resource for helping others to make judicious determinations about how to proceed in efforts to improve the disparities in American healthcare. Arranged into discrete categories, this volume contains comprehensive coverage, both historical and current, of the healthcare disparity crisis currently plaguing our country in hopes of leading us all to a brighter future. The volume includes chapters of examples that are currently working and concludes with recommendations on how to move forward. The text is not intended to be one in which all of the answers are given to the multitude of problems. Instead, Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America is intended to raise the reader’s level of consciousness and concern and to increase the knowledge base about the issues. This groundbreaking text will be an initial spark that ignites the fire that may one day eliminate healthcare disparities in communities around the country.