Health Care Issues in Black America: Policies, Problems, and Prospects

by Woodrow Jones, Mitchell Rice

Overview

This unique contribution to the literature represents an important adjunct in developing comprehensive policies that will meet the health care needs of underserved communities in American society. The book is readable and contains useful documentation. Recommended as an important reference for all academic audiences interested in the politics and delivery of health care. Choice

Editors Woodrow Jones, Jr., and Mitchell F. Rice present a thorough analysis of the problems of health and health care particular to black Americans. The contributors to this work analyze the factor of race as it influences the availability, accessibility, and quality of health care. They focus on barriers to health care encountered by blacks, and attempt to differentiate the problems of the black community from those of other disadvantaged groups. Using epidemiological data, the initial chapters evaluate the general health of the black population. In subsequent chapters, the contributors examine particular problems of groups within the black community, problems which are based both on behavior and environment. The work concludes by assessing the adequacy of governmental response to the problems identified.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313248863
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/23/1987
Series:	Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets , #10
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

WOODROW JONES, JR., is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at San Diego State University.

MITCHELL F. RICE is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Table of Contents

Black Health Care and Health Status
Black Health Care: An Overview by Woodrow Jones, Jr., and Mitchell F. Rice
Racial Differences in Mortality: Blacks and Whites by Antonio A. René
Risk Factors Associated with the Health Status of Black Women in the United States by Nancy R. Cope and Howard R. Hall
Health Policy, Politics, and the Black Community
Congress and Black Health: Dynamics and Strategies by K. Robert Keiser
Health Policy Design: Implementation Politics of Child Health and Family Planning Programs by Malcolm L. Goggin
Public Policy Compliance/Enforcement and Black American Health: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones, Jr.
Closing the Gap Between Black and White Infant Mortality Rates: An Analysis of Policy Options by Dorothy C. Howze
Issues in the Delivery of Health Services
Substance Abuse in the Black Community by Patrick R. Clifford
Promoting Mental Health: The Potential for Reform by Woodrow F. Jones, Jr., and Mitchell F. Rice
Long-Term Health Care and the Black Elderly by Verna M. Keith
Health Care of Blacks in American Inner Cities by Marianne Foley and Glen R. Johnson
Competitive Health Care: Assessing an Alternative Solution for Health Care Problems by Mylon Winn

Editorial Reviews

The papers in this collection, written by health professionals and social scientists, cover the comparative health status of American blacks, policy approaches to specific health problems, and the adequacy of governmental response. These well-documented presentations make clear that a huge disparity exists between the health status of blacks and whites and that current policies woefully fail to meet the health care needs of blackspoor blacks in particular. Recommendations include both specific policy approaches and more general changes in the social milieu to raise black health standards. Although the prose is sometimes dense and convoluted, this volume brings together much useful information for health care specialists, policy makers, and students. Robert Aken, Univ. of Kentucky Lib., Lexington

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