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Health Care Disparities

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In the year 2006, health care remains one of the most debated topics in America. At a time when health care costs continue to rise and the availability of health insurance to the population comes at increasing personal cost, ensuring equal and fair access to health care for all remains difficult. It is within this already complex framework that we must try and understand and address as the Institute of Medicine report (IOM) describes, “Unequal Treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care.”

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  1. Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Science, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA

    Michael Feuerstein Ph.D, MPH, ABPP

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Oseni, T.S., Jatoi, I. (2007). Health Care Disparities. In: Feuerstein, M. (eds) Handbook of Cancer Survivorship. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34562-8_5

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