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Navigation & the Healthcare System Course

Resources and References

Betancourt, Joseph R. M.D., Green, Alexander R. M.D., and Carrillo, J. Emilio M.D. “Cultural Competence in Health Care: Emerging Frameworks and Practical Approaches” The Commonwealth Fund, October 2002.

Dohan, Daniel, and Schrag, Deborah. “Using Navigators to Improve Care of Underserved Patients.” Cancer 104.4, (2005): 848-855.

Fowler, Tisha, Steakley, Caryn, Garcia, Roland, Kwok, Jennifer, Bennett, Michelle. “Reducing Disparities in the Burden of Cancer: The Role of Patient Navigators.” PLOS Medicine July 3:7, (2006).

Freeman, Harold. “Patient Navigation: A Community Based Strategy to Reduce Cancer Disparities.” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 83:2, (2006):139-141.

Freeman H.P., Muth B.J., Kerner JF. “Expanding Access to Cancer Screening and Clinical Follow-Up Among the Medically Underserved.” Cancer Practice Jan-Feb; 3.1, (1995): 19-30.

Mandelblatt, Jeanne, Yabroff, Robin, and Kerner, Jon. “Equitable Access to Cancer Services: A Review of Barriers to Quality Care.” Cancer 86.11, (1999): 2378-2390.

Stone, Neil J. “Clinical Confidence and the Three C’s: Caring, Communicating and Competence.” The American Journal of Medicine 119, (2006): 1-2.

Treadwell, Henrie, Ro, Marguerite. “Poverty, Race, and the Invisible Men.” American Journal of Public Health 93:5 May, (2003): 705-707.

“A Summary of the American Cancer Society Report to the Nation: Cancer in the Poor.” CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 39, (1989): 263-256.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. March 29, 2000. March 29, 2007.

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