Medical management of vulnerable and underserved patients : principles, practice, and populations /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : McGraw-Hill Medical Pub. Division, c2007.
Description:	xviii, 454 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Poor -- Medical care -- United States. Medically uninsured persons -- Medical care -- United States. People with social disabilities -- Medical care -- United States. Health services accessibility -- United States. Community health services -- United States. Vulnerable Populations -- United States. Delivery of Health Care -- United States. Health Services Accessibility -- United States. Community Health Services -- United States. Minority Groups -- United States. Patient Advocacy -- United States. Medical Indigency -- United States. Health Services Needs and Demand -- United States. Community health services. Health services accessibility. Medically uninsured persons -- Medical care. People with social disabilities -- Medical care. Poor -- Medical care. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6201656

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Other authors / contributors:	King, Talmadge E., Jr. Wheeler, Margaret B.
ISBN:	0071443312 (softcover) 9780071443319
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Section I. Principles
Chapter 1. Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities: An Overview
Chapter 2. Health Care Disparities: An Overview
Chapter 3. Financing and Organization of Healthcare for Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 4. Legal Issues in the Care of Underserved Populations
Chapter 5. Principles in the Ethical Care of Underserved Patients
Section II. Practice
Chapter 6. Creating a Context for Effective Intervention in the Clinical Care of Vulnerable Patients
Chapter 7. Promoting Behavior Change
Chapter 8. Assessing and Promoting Medical
Chapter 9. Navigating Cross-Cultural Communication
Chapter 10. Improving the Effectiveness of Patient Education: A Focus on Limited Health Literacy
Chapter 11. The Home Visit/Mobile Outreach
Chapter 12. Group Medical Visits for Underserved Populations
Chapter 13. Applying Interactive Health Technologies for Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 14. Applying Principles and Practice of Quality Improvement to Better Care for the Underserved
Chapter 15. Case Management/Multidisciplinary Care Models
Chapter 16. Health and the Community
Section III. Populations
Chapter 17. Underserved Children: Preventing Chronic Illness and Promoting Health
Chapter 18. Adolescence and its Vulnerabilities
Chapter 19. The Family as the Context for Care
Chapter 20. The Hidden Poor: Care of the Elderly
Chapter 21. Work, Living Environment, and Health
Chapter 22. Care of the Dying Patient
Chapter 23. Clinical Care for Persons with a History of Incarceration
Chapter 24. Care of the Homeless Patient
Chapter 25. Immigrant Health Issues
Chapter 26. Providing Care to Patients Who Speak Limited English
Chapter 27. Sexuality as Vulnerability: The Care of Lesbian and Gay Patients
Chapter 28. The Medical Treatment of Patients with Psychiatric Illness
Chapter 29. Women's Health: Reproduction and Beyond in Poor Women
Chapter 30. Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 31. Obesity as a Clinical and Social Problem

Medical management of vulnerable and underserved patients : principles, practice, and populations /

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