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Health disparities in rheumatic diseases: Part I, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
Health disparities in rheumatic diseases
- 1st Edition, Volume 46-4 - October 9, 2020
- Editor: Candace H Feldman
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 6 0 1 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 6 0 2 - 6
This issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Candace Feldman, will Health Disparities in Rheumatic Diseases. This issue is one of four selected each year by series… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Candace Feldman, will Health Disparities in Rheumatic Diseases. This issue is one of four selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Michael Weisman. Topics discussed in this issue include, but are not limited to: Disparities in Rheumatology Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory; Use of Quality Metrics to Identify Disparities in Lupus Care; The Role of Individual and Area-level Poverty on Lupus Disparities; Disparities in Lupus Care and Outcomes among U.S. Medicaid Beneficiaries; Disparities in Rheumatoid Arthritis Care; Disparities in Childhood-onset Lupus and Mental Health Care for Pediatric Lupus Patients; Disparities in Rheumatic Disease Care, Access and Outcomes in the First Nations Population; Impact of Psychosocial Factors on RA and Lupus Health Disparities; Racial and gender disparities among patients with Gout; Racial/ethnic and geographic disparities in knee and hip osteoarthritis; Racial/ethnic Disparities in Osteoarthritis Management; Racial disparities in systemic sclerosis; Community-engaged Research: Lupus Conversations; Leveraging Telemedicine as an Approach to Address Rheumatic Disease Health Disparities; Understanding the Role and Challenges of Patient Preferences in Disparities in Rheumatic Disease Care; Designing an Intervention to Improve Management and Care Coordination for High Risk Lupus Patients; Greatest Challenges and Strategies to Achieve Equitable Rheumatologic Care Across the World, among others.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
- Foreword
- Preface
- I. Application of Theoretical Frameworks and Quality Metrics to Understand Rheumatic Disease Disparities
- Racial Disparities in Rheumatology Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory
- Key points
- Introduction
- Content
- Summary
- Understanding Lupus Disparities Through a Social Determinants of Health Framework: The Georgians Organized Against Lupus Research Cohort
- Key points
- Disparities in lupus
- The Legacy of Lupus in Minorities: Nature versus Nurture
- Social determinants of health
- The Georgia Lupus Registry
- The Georgians Organized Against Lupus Cohort
- Social determinants of health in the Georgians Organized Against Lupus cohort
- Contributions
- Summary
- Use of Quality Measures to Identify Disparities in Health Care for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Key points
- Introduction
- Structural measures and access to care
- Process quality measures
- Disparities in performance on quality measures
- Outcome measures
- Summary
- Socioeconomic Status, Health Care, and Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Key points
- The foundation for understanding socioeconomic status and systemic lupus erythematosus
- Poverty and systemic lupus erythematosus
- Long-term outcomes in the disadvantaged with systemic lupus erythematosus
- Barriers to improving long-term outcomes among poor with systemic lupus erythematosus: direct, indirect, and intangible costs
- Modifiable factors in poverty and systemic lupus erythematosus
- Summary
- II. Understanding Disease and Population-Specific Rheumatic Disease Disparities
- Understanding the Disproportionate Burden of Rheumatic Diseases in Indigenous North American Populations
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology of rheumatic diseases
- Risk factors for rheumatic disease
- Future directions and the importance of community engagement in rheumatic disease research with indigenous North American populations
- Summary
- Disparities in Childhood-Onset Lupus
- Key points
- Introduction
- Disparities in prevalence of childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus
- Disparities in disease manifestations and severity
- Disparities in morbidity and mortality
- Disparities in mental health and health-related quality of life
- Disparities in health care quality and utilization
- Potential contributors to disparities
- Addressing disparities
- Summary
- Health Disparities in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Key points
- Introduction
- Incidence, prevalence, and mortality
- Renal outcomes
- Adherence
- Poverty
- Health care access
- Environmental exposures
- Epigenetic changes
- Summary
- Disparities in Rheumatoid Arthritis Care and Health Service Solutions to Equity
- Key points
- Introduction
- Disparities in access to health services
- Disparities in access to medications
- Patient experience and performance in quality-of-care indicators
- Models of care and treatment approaches to support better rheumatoid arthritis outcomes for populations at risk of inequities
- Summary
- Gender and Ethnic Inequities in Gout Burden and Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Gender disparities
- Racial/ethnic disparities: United States
- Ethnic disparities: Aotearoa/New Zealand
- What is driving inequity in gout management?
- Strategies to achieve health equity in gout
- Summary
- Racial Disparities in Systemic Sclerosis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evidence of disparities
- Summary
- III. Strategies to Begin to Reduce Disparities
- Increasing Ancestral Diversity in Lupus Trials: Ways Forward
- Key points
- Introduction
- Historical and contemporary trends regarding diversity in clinical trials
- Does treatment response vary by race/ethnicity in systemic lupus erythematosus?
- Heterogeneity in systemic lupus erythematosus and the challenge of clinical trials and biomedical studies
- Enhancing diversity in the systemic lupus erythematosus research pipeline: a democratizing framework
- Summary
- Designing an Intervention to Improve Management of High-Risk Lupus Patients Through Care Coordination
- Key points
- Introduction
- Defining high-risk systemic lupus erythematosus patients
- Identification of modifiable risk factors
- Designing a sustainable intervention model
- the author’s experience: the project to improve the quality of low income, underserved, poor, underprivilidged systemic lupus erythematosus patients (iq-lupus) model
- Access
- Behavioral changes
- Community outreach efforts
- Depression, fatigue, and loneliness
- Education
- Successes and challenges
- Summary
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 46-4
- Published: October 9, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323796019
- eBook ISBN: 9780323796026
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Candace H Feldman
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy