title: Discrimination in Minority Health Care.
abstract: Racial/ethnic minority adolescents are reported to have lower general health status, including higher prevalence of many infectious diseases, than white, non-Hispanic youth. Factors such as lower socioeconomic position, neighborhoods they live in, different cultural views on health, and different role of the family in health care providing are all thought to contribute to this situation. This chapter comprehensively reviews the existing data on the health status of minority adolescents, social, demographic, educational and cultural determinants of racial/ethnic minority populations and how they might interfere with health care delivery to the adolescents, and discusses the need for initiatives to improve the existing conditions.
authors.affiliation: 1350 7th Avenue, Room 235, San Francisco, CA 94143-0848, USA.
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ellen
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Gurvey
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Irwin