The Challenges of Health Disparities: Implications and Actions for Health Care Professionals

The Challenges of Health Disparities: Implications and Actions for Health Care Professionals explores health disparities in the United States and their implications from the perspective of health care administration. The book begins with a broad overview of health disparities including definitions from local, state, and federal legislation, as well as alternative definitions. The authors examine current and past frameworks of analysis regarding the causes of disparities and provide a statistical overview of death rates and their implications for health care administrators. In the final section of the book, each chapter looks at health disparities within each type of health care environment such as physician practices, hospitals, pharmaceutical products, Medicare/Medicaid, long-term care, insurance markets, and more.

Darren Liu received his DrPH (Doctor of Public Health) and biostatistics MS from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. He completed his BS in public health and MHA in health administration in Taiwan. He teaches both MPH and MHA programs in the areas of health and healthcare disparities, organizational behavior and management, population health, long-term care administration, healthcare leadership, and epidemiology. He is currently a Professor of the Department of Health Policy, Management & Leadership at West Virginia University.