Eliminating Racial Discrimination in Health Care: A Call for State Health Care Anti-Discrimination Law
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: It might be that civil rights laws often go unenforced; it might be that current inequities spring from past prejudice and long standing economic differences that are not entirely reachable by law; or it might be that the law sometimes fails to reflect, and consequently fails to correct, the barriers faced by people of color."--Derrick Bell'Equal access to quality health care is a crucial issue facing the United States ("US"). 2 For too long, we have denied too many Americans equal access to quality health care based on race, ethnicity, and gender.3 Many factors contribute to inequities: cultural incompetence of health care providers, socioeconomic inequities, disparate impact of facially neutral practices and policies, inadequacy of civil rights laws and enforcement, and multiple forms of discrimination.These inequities exist in health status, access to health care services, participation in health research and
Author: Vernellia R. Randall
Institution: DePaul University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2184709571