Question

write using your own words or based on a resource sited about Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Access

Answer 1

The sources of racial & ethnic healthcare disparities include differences in geography,lack of access to adequate health coverage,communication difficulties between patient & provider,cultural barriers,provider stereotyping & lack of access to providers. The literature reviewed earlier in report demonstrates that evidence of recial and ethnic disparities in healthcare is persuasive and remarkably consistent across a range of health conditions and procedures, and cannot be fully explained by differences in across to care, such as insurance status. Moreover, the literature suggests several sources for these disparities. This evidence, however does not suffice for an authoritative, comprehensive, unambiguous account of how disparities arise. A number of uncertainties confound efforts to synthesize what is known empirically about stereotypes and prejudice, doctor-patient relations, clinical judgement and patient preferences, as well as the social, institutional, financial, and legal forces that shape the practice of medicine. Yet an effort at such a synthesis is essential to construct an evidence based account of how disparities in care emerge and of what might be done to eliminate these disparities.