Health Care and Civil Rights: An Introduction

This article offers a brief history of healthcare civil rights, describes a range of healthcare issues that have a civil rights component, and discusses the need for an expanded civil rights framework to guide the provision of health care. Unequal health care based on race and ethnicity has received...

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Published in:Ethnicity & disease 2005, Vol.15 (2 Suppl 2), p.27-30
Main Author: Teitelbaum, Joel B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioethics
Civil rights
Civil Rights - history
Civil Rights - legislation & jurisprudence
Consumer Advocacy
Disabled Persons - legislation & jurisprudence
Ethnicity
Health and Medicine
Health Care Policy
Health Services Accessibility - legislation & jurisprudence
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Minority Groups - history
Minority Groups - legislation & jurisprudence
Original Reports: Policy
Prejudice
Race
Race Relations - history
Race Relations - legislation & jurisprudence
Social Class
Social discrimination
Social Justice - history
Social Justice - legislation & jurisprudence
United States
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Summary:This article offers a brief history of healthcare civil rights, describes a range of healthcare issues that have a civil rights component, and discusses the need for an expanded civil rights framework to guide the provision of health care. Unequal health care based on race and ethnicity has received renewed attention over the past several years, but healthcare discrimination based on socioeconomic status, disability, age, and gender also deserve careful attention.
ISSN:1049-510X