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Health Disparities in Respiratory Medicine

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Editors:
  1. Lynn B. Gerald

    1. Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, University of Arizona Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, TUCSON, USA

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  2. Cristine E. Berry

    1. Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, University of Arizona Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, Tucson, USA

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  • Useful resource for clinicians, health care administrators, and policy makers
  • Chapters focus on specific respiratory diseases
  • Offers potential solutions for health disparities
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction to Health Disparities and Respiratory Health

    • Andrew Pleasant, Jennifer Cabe, Richard H. Carmona
    Pages 1-7

  3. Health Disparities in Tobacco Smoking and Smoke Exposure

    • Pebbles Fagan
    Pages 9-39

  4. Health Disparities Related to Environmental Air Quality

    • Sonali Bose, Gregory B. Diette
    Pages 41-58

  5. Health Disparities in Occupational Exposures

    • Kenneth D. Rosenman
    Pages 59-78

  6. Health Disparities and Pulmonary Function Testing

    • Joseph H. Skalski, Rachele A. Gibson, Sarah A. Narotzky, Hemang Yadav, Paul D. Scanlon
    Pages 79-104

  7. Health Disparities as They Relate to Medication Adherence

    • Sandra R. Wilson, Meghan Halley, Sarah Knowles
    Pages 105-133

  8. Health Disparities in ARDS

    • Nancy Gonzalez Casanova, Jorge R. Navarrete, Hector Quijada, Louise Hecker, Joe G. N. Garcia
    Pages 135-146

  9. Social Disparities in Lung Growth and Respiratory Health

    • Kelly J. Brunst, Rosalind J. Wright
    Pages 147-171

  10. Health Disparities in Asthma

    • Christian Bime
    Pages 173-187

  11. Health Disparities in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    • Miriam Siegel, Jerry A. Krishnan, Jamie Lamson-Sullivan, Scott Cerreta, David M. Mannino
    Pages 189-205

  12. Health Disparities and Tuberculosis

    • Eyal Oren
    Pages 207-235

  13. Disparities in Lung Cancer Outcomes

    • Ching-Fei Chang, Gary S. Feigenbaum, Michael K. Gould
    Pages 237-264

  14. Health Disparities in Critical Illness

    • Daniel Monroy Chaves, John Daryl Thornton
    Pages 265-293

  15. Health Disparities in Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders

    • Jose S. Loredo
    Pages 295-323

  16. Health Disparities in End-of-Life Care

    • Ann C. Long, J. Randall Curtis
    Pages 325-339

  17. Where Do We Go from Here? Improving Disparities in Respiratory Health

    • Juan C. Celedón, Gary Ewart, Patricia W. Finn
    Pages 341-354

  18. Erratum to: Health Disparities in ARDS

    • Nancy Gonzalez Casanova, Jorge R. Navarrete, Hector Quijada, Louise Hecker, Joe G. N. Garcia
    Pages E1-E1

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 355-364
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About this book

This book discusses health disparities in respiratory medicine and suggests methods to reduce them. In the United States, health disparities are well documented in the care of patients with respiratory disorders, particularly among minorities who often have higher rates of disease and poorer health outcomes. Similarly, differences in health and health outcomes exist between differing socioeconomic groups, with lower income groups generally having poorer health and higher rates of chronic illness. Health Disparities in Respiratory Medicine investigates these differing outcomes through the complex connections between access and quality of treatment available to these groups. Chapters are organized around either causes, diseases, or types of care, including tobacco smoke exposure, environmental air quality, acute respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and end-of-life care. This volume is an ideal resource for pulmonologists, health care administrators, and policy makers who aim to understand disparities in respiratory medicine and take steps to improve the differences among groups.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, University of Arizona Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, TUCSON, USA

    Lynn B. Gerald

  • Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, University of Arizona Arizona Respiratory Center and Departmen, Tucson, USA

    Cristine E. Berry

About the editors

Dr. Gerald is the Canyon Ranch Endowed Chair, Professor in the Department of Health Promotion Sciences and Associate Dean of Research in College of Public Health, at the University of Arizona and a member of the Arizona Respiratory Center. She is a nationally known expert in the area of school based asthma including implementation of asthma management programs, school based asthma case detection, and internet based asthma monitoring. She also has extensive experience in the areas of clinical, behavioral and epidemiological research in asthma, COPD, and tuberculosis. Dr. Gerald is actively involved in professional and community education related to asthma and has served on many national and local boards including the American Thoracic Society Board of Directors and the American Lung Association of Southern Arizona Board of Directors. She currently serves as PI of the American Lung Association Asthma Clinical Research Center at the University of Arizona. Dr. Gerald has also served on many thesis and dissertation committees and mentored many graduate students, fellows, and junior faculty in the development of research programs.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health Disparities in Respiratory Medicine

  • Editors: Lynn B. Gerald, Cristine E. Berry

  • Series Title: Respiratory Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23675-9

  • Publisher: Humana Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23674-2Published: 28 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79519-5Published: 28 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23675-9Published: 14 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2197-7372

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 364

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Administration

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