Social Sources of Disparities in Health and Health Care and Linkages to Policy, Population Concerns and Providers of Care

List of Contributors. Social sources of disparities in health and health care: An introduction to the volume. Different measures, different mechanisms: A new perspective on racial disparities in health care. How do American black, white, hispanic, and Asian health care users perceive their medical non-adherence?. Disparities in primary care by race and ethnicity among medicaid children in California. Social sources of disparities in use of complementary and alternative medicine. Racial and socioeconomic disparities in use of long-lasting contraception. Critical review of the evidence for the connection between education and health: A guide for exploration of the causal pathways. The influence of childhood poverty on the self-management of heart disease in later life. The role of cultural capital in the relationship between socioeconomic status and health outcomes: the case of hemodialysis patient compliance. Distinguishing quality of nursing facility long-term care from stringency of enforcement. Hurt running from police? No chance of (pain) relief: The social construction of deserving patients in emergency departments. Emerging community approaches for eliminating health disparities: A preliminary investigation of commonalities and differences. Effects of household assets upon rural residents’ self-reported physical and emotional well-being. Disparities in health care among Vietnamese New Orleanians and the impacts of Hurricane Katrina. Research in the sociology of health care. Social sources of disparities in health and health care and linkages to policy, population concerns and providers of care. Copyright page.