eHealth Solutions for Healthcare Disparities (eBook)

Michael Christopher Gibbons is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Assistant Professor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was recently elected President of the International Society for Urban Health. One of Gibbons’s research interests is the development of effective health interventions to reduce health disparities. He is the founding director of the Center for Community Health Education, Advocacy and Leadership Training at Hopkins (HEALTH), is a member of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and was named a Health Disparities Scholar by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.

Preface 5
Contents 7
Contributors 9
Section I 11
An Overview of Healthcare Disparities 12
Provider Factors in Healthcare Disparities 20
Patient Factors in Healthcare Disparities 28
Healthcare System Factors in Healthcare Disparities 39
The Social “Nonmedical” Determinants of Health 48
Section II 57
The Role of the Internet in American Life 58
The iHealth Revolution 67
Digital Disparities 73
Section III 79
The Role of eHealth in Patient Engagement and Quality Improvement 80
Medical Informatics 98
Public Health Informatics 114
Section IV 132
Beyond Traditional Paradigms in Disparities Research 133
Health Information Technology Policy Perspectives and Healthcare Disparities 149
Disparities and eHealth: Achieving the Promise and the Potential 158
Author Index 169
Subject Index 177