title: Access to health care: what a difference shades of color make.
abstract: Professor Majette's timely article examines an age-old problem: the effect of race and ethnicity on a patient's receipt of health care. Her article analyzes some of the major health care access issues, with a focus on barriers confronting African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Some of the barriers include inability to pay, cultural insensitivity, a shortage of health care providers, and discrimination. She also examines some of the unsuccessful legal solutions and remedies designed to eliminate these barriers. Given the complexity of the access barriers encountered by people of color, Professor Majette concludes that only an interdisciplinary approach can eliminate them. Her proposed approach requires business, legal, and medical professionals to collaborate in developing a health care system that meets the needs of aracially and ethnically diverse population.
authors.affiliation: Howard University School of Law, USA.
authors.forename: Gwendolyn Roberts
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Majette
mesh_terms: D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D003142:Communication; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006271:Health Facility Closure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006280:Health Workforce; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008913:Minority Groups; D011287:Prejudice; D035521:Supreme Court Decisions; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations