“Origins and Strategies for Addressing Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Pharmaceutical Therapy The HealthCare System, the Provider, and the Patient,” National Minority Quality Forum The report by Richard Levy, a health care consultant and former vice president of the National Pharmaceutical Council; Robert Like, professor and director of the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity of the UMDNJRobert Wood Johnson Medical School; and Harry Shabsin, a privatepractice psychologist looks at how appropriate medications for a variety of diseases often are underprescribed, overprescribed, or misprescribed among minorities. The report looks at disparities in treatment of minority patients with cardiovascular disease, asthma, psychiatric illness, pain and other conditions and finds disparities in access to medications through insurance programs, in the prescribing of medications and in adherence to medication regimens. The report offers ways to improve prescribing and use of medications among diverse communities (National Minority Quality Forum release, 5/12).

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