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The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap

By Sally Satel , Jonathan Klick

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0844771929, 9780844771922
LCC
RA418.3.U6 K65 2006
Open Library ID
OL3418544M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
342 kB (350622 bytes)
Pages
88\94
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Many experts today insist that race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with patients, and that black patients will get care that is inferior to white patients. Is this true? In The Health Disparities Myth, Jonathan Klick and Sally Satel conclude that differences in treatment indeed vary by race but not because of it. Data show that third factors, especially geography and socioeconomic factors, generate the strongest momentum in driving the treatment gap. Because health care varies a great deal depending on where people live, and because blacks are overrepresented in regions of the United States served by poorer health care facilities, disparities are, at least in part, a function of residence and not of discrimination.

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