Health Care System Issues and Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender as Sociological Issues Linking to Health and Health Care
Issues in Health and Health Care Related to Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender
ISBN: 978-1-78190-124-3, eISBN: 978-1-78190-125-0
Publication date: 9 August 2012
Abstract
This chapter will initially review some health care system issues with a focus on the US health care system. It will then review some of the sociological literature about race/ethnicity, immigration, socioeconomic status (SES) and gender and how these factors link to health and health care. In addition, the chapter will serve as an introduction to the volume and will briefly review the contents of the other sections and chapters in this volume.
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Citation
Jacobs Kronenfeld, J. (2012), "Health Care System Issues and Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender as Sociological Issues Linking to Health and Health Care", Jacobs Kronenfeld, J. (Ed.) Issues in Health and Health Care Related to Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender (Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 30), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0275-4959(2012)0000030003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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