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Why are health disparities everyone's problem? / Lisa Cooper.

By: Series: Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2021Description: 229 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421441153
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA418 .C66 2021
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.
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"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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"--

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