Vulnerable Populations in the United States
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Leiyu Shi is co-director of the Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy at the Center for the Underserved. He is associate professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Gregory D. Stevens is a senior researcher with the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities.
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Figures, Tables, and Exhibits.
Preface.
About the Authors.
1. A General Framework to Study Vulnerable Populations.
2. The Community Determinants and Mechanisms of Vulnerability.
3. Disparities in Health Care Access, Quality, and Health Status: The Influence of Individual Risk Factors.
4. Disparities in Health Care Access, Quality, and Health Status: The Influence of Multiple Risk Factors.
5. Current Strategies to Serve Vulnerable Populations.
6. Resolving Disparities in the United States.
Glossary.
References.
Name Index. Subject Index.
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“The issue of health disparities in the United States requires a major refocusing on our health care system and social justice. Addressing those disparities requires new ideas and new directions. Shi and Stevens provide much-needed guidance to policymakers challenged with providing solutions to this embarrassing issue in the United States.”
--F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, Peter P Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Kentucky
--F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, Peter P Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Kentucky
