Health Equity

This essential text assists health care students and practitioners in delivering skilled and appropriate care to all patients, no matter their ethnicity, country of origin, cultural history, or access to services. Presenting need to know and often hard to find information on differences in access to heath-care, immunization histories, disease prevalence, attitudes about health and provision of care, and much more, this resource provides practical, authoritative and specific guidance.

To receive the greatest value for health care, it is important to focus on issues of quality and disparity, and the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions based on basic health knowledge and services.