Navigating the Inequitable U.S. Healthcare System

In Search of Critical Care

Kellina Craig-Henderson

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Anthem Press
04 June 2024

Social discrimination; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Social, group or collective psychology; Health systems & services

Navigating the Inequitable U.S. Healthcare System explores the existing inequities within the U.S. healthcare system, their impacts on individuals and in particular Black women, who seek life-saving healthcare.

As a social scientist interested in examining the matter of health inequities, the author was particularly interested in documenting the impact of racial and ethnic inequities on the quest for critical health care in the context of a major health care crisis. More poignantly, as a healthcare consumer recently plunged into the marketplace for life-saving health care, the author systematically explored and documented the process of obtaining care as an African American woman against the backdrop of an emerging global pandemic. This book recounts some of these experiences by showing specific instances where the ogre of race intruded and influenced her access to life-saving care. She was particularly interested in documenting the process by which I was ultimately able to obtain care, and the way that I was treated within the medical establishment by its mostly well-intentioned physicians, nurses, and other medical personnel. Among other things, this book argues for increased formal and informal support structures within the healthcare system that are specifically focused on Black women's survival, wellbeing and quality of life.

By: Kellina Craig-Henderson
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781839987670
ISBN 10: 1839987677
Pages: 122
Publication Date: 04 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword; 1.The Crisis of Diagnosis; 2. Black Women’s Healthcare; 3. Health Equity as a Perennial Pursuit; 4. The Subtlety of Skin Tone Bias and Racism in Access to Quality Care; 5. Bone Biopsy, Stem Cell Harvesting, and Prayer; 6. End Goal—Kidney Transplant; References; Index

Dr. Kellina M. Craig-Henderson is a former full time professor of psychology and a member of the Senior Executive Service for the federal government.

Reviews for Navigating the Inequitable U.S. Healthcare System: In Search of Critical Care

“This work provides personal and powerful insights into the U.S. healthcare system, its inequalities, and disparities from the perspective of an African American social scientist doctor who chose to journal her experiences as she pursued treatment for a life-threatening rare disease. Despite her higher socioeconomic status, insured status, and higher level of education, Dr. Craig-Henderson, as has been borne out in many instances, was not immune from these disparities. I hope that Dr. Craig-Henderson’s pursuit of life-saving health care and her death will provide similar insights into and solutions to these systemic issues that plague the U.S. healthcare system and are borne out in her book.” — Yvonne Noel, MD OB-GYN, located in Brooklyn, NY