Healthcare Disparities in Otolaryngology

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Book
September 2023
Elsevier Health Science
ID: 5779214

While numerous studies have illustrated healthcare disparities within otolaryngology, few have progressed?beyond?detection. To move ahead, our specialty needs to advance our level of understanding and develop, implement, and disseminate successful interventions toward the goal of eliminating disparities.?Healthcare Disparities in Otolaryngology offers comprehensive look at this important topic and its clinical impact on the practice of otolaryngology. After first covering specialty-wide perspectives on factors that are associated with healthcare disparities in otolaryngology, it then focuses on subspecialty specific evidence. Editors and authors represent leading otolaryngology experts who have assembled the most up-to-date recommendations for managing healthcare disparities in the field.

Covers The Influence of Healthcare System Organization on Healthcare Disparities in Otolaryngology; The Integration of Sex and Gender Considerations in Otolaryngology; Understanding Rural-Urban Disparities in Otolaryngology; The Impact of Health Literacy on Patient Care in Otolaryngology; Hearing Health Disparities: Applying Social Epidemiologic Principles and New Approaches; Social Determinants of Health and Demographic Disparities in Rhinology; Disparities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea; and much more.�
Presents a unique look at healthcare disparities amongst special groups, such as the LGBTQ community and the geriatric population.��
Consolidates today's available information on healthcare disparities in otolaryngology into a single, convenient resource.�

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Chapter 1 Introduction to healthcare disparities in otolaryngology
Chapter 2 Influence of healthcare system organization on healthcare disparities in otolaryngology
Chapter 3 The contribution of racial and ethnic biases to disparities across the care cycle and to outcomes in otolaryngology
Chapter 4 The integration of sex and gender considerations in otolaryngology
Chapter 5 Improving LGBTQ healthcare in the otolaryngology community
Chapter 6 Transgender care in otolaryngology
Chapter 7 Health disparities related to aging
Chapter 8 Understanding rural-urban disparities in otolaryngology
Chapter 9 The impact of health literacy on patient care in otolaryngology
Chapter 10 Healthcare disparities in laryngology and speech language pathology
Chapter 11 Social determinants of health and demographic disparities in rhinology
Chapter 12 Hearing health disparities
Chapter 13 Disparities in cochlear implantation
Chapter 14 Health disparities in head and neck cancer
Chapter 15 Disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
Chapter 16 Health disparities in facial plastic surgery
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Authors

Sarah N. Bowe Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, TX. Erynne A. Faucett Department of OtolaryngologydHead and Neck Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States.

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