Achieving Equitable Access: Studies of Health Care Issues Affecting Hispanics and African-Americans

by Lillie-Blanton Marsha, Ana Alfaro-Carera, Wilhelmina Leigh, et al.

In the past thirty years, the United States has made remarkable progress in reducing barriers in access to health care faced by racial and ethnic minority Americans. Most minority Americans born in the 1950s have vivid memories of "separate and unequal" health facilities. By the 1980s, overt and blatant barriers to care were uncommon. In spite of the progress achieved, recent studies continue to provide evidence that minority Americans experience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761803777
• ISBN13: 9780761803775
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"