While numerous studies have illustrated healthcare disparities within otolaryngology, few have progressed?beyond?detection. To move ahead, our specialty needs to advance our level of understanding and develop, implement, and disseminate successful interventions toward the goal of eliminating disparities.?Healthcare Disparities in Otolaryngology offers comprehensive look at this important topic and its clinical impact on the practice of otolaryngology. After first covering specialty-wide perspectives on factors that are associated with healthcare disparities in otolaryngology, it then focuses on subspecialty specific evidence. Editors and authors represent leading otolaryngology experts who have assembled the most up-to-date recommendations for managing healthcare disparities in the field.
1. Introduction to healthcare disparities in otolaryngology 2. Influence of healthcare system organization on healthcare disparities in otolaryngology 3. The contribution of racial and ethnic biases to disparities across the care cycle and to outcomes in otolaryngology 4. The integration of sex and gender considerations in otolaryngology 5. Improving LGBTQ healthcare in the otolaryngology community 6. Transgender care in otolaryngology 7. Health disparities related to aging 8. Understanding rural-urban disparities in otolaryngology 9. The impact of health literacy on patient care in otolaryngology 10. Healthcare disparities in laryngology and speech language pathology 11. Social determinants of health and demographic disparities in rhinology 12. Hearing health disparities 13. Disparities in cochlear implantation 14. Health disparities in head and neck cancer 15. Disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea 16. Health disparities in facial plastic surgery
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