The theme of this volume is Health Care Services, Racial and Ethnic
Minorities and Underserved Populations: Patient and Provider
Perspectives. The volume is divided into five sections. The first
section discusses the overall issue of health care disparities and
underserved populations and also provides introductory material
about the rest of the volume. The next section focuses on issues
that relate to gender. The third section provides papers on some
other specific examples of underserved populations: those with
mental health concerns, those with concerns related to emotional
well being, the elderly population and sex workers. The fourth
section includes papers that discuss treatment disparities and
providers of care. The final section includes papers that relate to
policy concerns.
The topic of health care services and underserved populations is
one of growing importance within the US health care system and one
of importance in health care systems across the world. Concern
about equity in health care is not new. There is a long tradition
in medical sociology of studies of inequities in health status and
use of health care services. Over the past ten to twenty years,
there have been many studies that have documented that race and
socioeconomic status (SES) influence the use of health care
services. Within the US in the past decade, this area of concern is
often described as studies of health disparities and this volume is
a contribution to that research. This volume examines the issue
more broadly, by including some issues in countries besides the US
and examining the role of providers in treatment disparities and
important policy concerns.
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