Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities

This essential text assists health care students and practitioners in
delivering skilled and appropriate care to all patients, no matter
their ethnicity, country of origin, cultural history, or access to
services. Presenting need to know and often hard to find information
on differences in access to heath-care, immunization histories,
disease prevalence, attitudes about health and provision of care, and
much more, this resource provides practical, authoritative and
specific guidance.

About the Author
-David Satcher, MD, PhD
Former US Surgeon General
Formerly: Director, CDC
Currently: Director, National Center for Primary Care Medicine
Morehouse Medical School
Board of Directors, Johnson and Johnson Inc.

- Rubens J. Pamies, MD
Chairman of Medicine
Meharry Medical College Nashville, Tennessee

- Dr. Pamies chairs the department of medicine at Meharry, and was
instrumental in creating the Institute of Medicine Report. He is
deeply involved in the forthcoming annual report on Health
Disparities. Dr. Satcher was also intrumental in the Institute of
Medicine Report’s creation and as Surgeon General was the primary
force behind the creation of the Center for Research in Minority
Medicine. He is a family practitioner by background and has won
innumerable awards for his contributions to clinical medicine.






1. Immigration Pattern and Demographic Changes and Its Impact on U.S.
Health
2. Cultural Competencies in Clinical Medicine: The Patient Encounter
3. The Impact of Culture on Health Outcomes
4. Compliance with Medical Treatment 5. Immunization and Preventive
Health Care
6. Obesity and Nutrition
7. Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension
8. Diabetes
9. Oncology
10. Hemoglobinopathies
11. Pregnancy, Prenatal Healthcare, and the Newborn
12. Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence
13. The AIDS Epidemic and Other Infectious Diseases in the
Underserved and Minority Population
14. Transplantation and Organ Donation
15. Stress and Mental Health
16. Pain Management
17. Bioterrorism
18. Participation of Minorities in Research and Clinical Trial ?
Lingering Impact of Tuskegee or New Concerns
19. The Role of Different Provider Types in Cultural Medicine
20. The Role of Government and Social Programs on Health Outcome in
the Minority /Underserved Community
21. The Future of Health Care The Cost of No Change