title: Women's health centers and minority women: addressing barriers to care. The National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health.
abstract: New models of care delivery have been developed to better coordinate and integrate healthcare for women. In the United States, one of the challenges is to incorporate the needs of racial and ethnic minority populations into these newer care paradigms. This paper begins with a brief historical review of the experience of racial and ethnic minorities in the American healthcare system to provide a context for discussing barriers and limitations of more traditional models of women's healthcare. Specific approaches used by National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health are presented as examples of strategies that may be implemented by other communities to address these barriers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Camacho
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Freund
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bigby
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Walcott-McQuigg
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nunez
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dillard
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weiner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Weitz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zerr
mesh_terms: D003151:Community Health Centers; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; D014932:Women's Health Services