Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Health Care
The recent report of the Institute of Medicine, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2002 Smedley et. al.), indicates that bias, st Continue Reading...
Breast Cancer Treatment
Breast cancer is not an illness which can be cured with medication, it is a fatal disease. If not detected at an early stage it is incurable. A famous Chinese proverb states "We cannot control the wind, but we have the power Continue Reading...
Treatment of Cancer
Cultural and Ethnical Related
Beliefs in the Treatment of Cancer
Healthcare disparities among cultural or ethnic lines have been shown to not be as totally unbalanced burdens from disease, disability or death. Particular popula Continue Reading...
The Social Injustice Issue of Health CareIntroductionHealth care is an important and timely issue that reflects various forms of social injustice in the United States. The challenge of ensuring equal and equitable access to health care, respect for h Continue Reading...
2012, 1.5 million lives were lost to diabetes globally. It ranked eighth among the causes of deaths across both sexes and fifth among women (WHO, 2016). Higher than optimal glucose levels, even those that fall below diabetes diagnostic threshold, is Continue Reading...
(Worcestershire Diabetes: a New model of care Stakeholder event, 2007)
The continuum of care for the diabetic patient is shown in the following illustration labeled Figure 1.
Diabetes: Continuum of Care
Source: Worcestershire Diabetes: a New mode Continue Reading...
Health Care System
Healthcare Professionals
Health care providers must be properly integrated at every system level and must be allowed to lead the processes of designing, implementing and operating ideal health systems. Research works identify a Continue Reading...
Figure 1. Demographic composition of the United States (2003 estimate).
Source: Based on tabular data in World Factbook, 2007 (no separate listing is maintained for Hispanics).
From a strictly percentage perspective, it would seem that Asian-Amer Continue Reading...
Pay Equity
As American business enters the 21st century the issue of unequal pay for equal work continues.
The course of attaining the objectives of just wages for all workers by eradicating the wage disparities between men and women workers is kno Continue Reading...