February 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
The Harvard School of Public Health and Dartmouth Medical School examined data from 29 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare fee-for-service program from 1992 though 2001.
March 8, 2007
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Program Result Report
The program's primary focus was to help more community organizations become involved in effective policy advocacy around access to care.
March 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
The National Minority Health Month Foundation created a minority health status database and used it to determine whether different outcomes were related to minority versus non-minority ZIP codes.
September 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
E. Richard Brown, Ph.D., led a team of researchers in fielding a new Housing and Neighborhood Environment module as part of the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).
October 15, 2007
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Program Result Report
From 2002 to 2006, the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, known as the MED, in Memphis, Tenn., improved and expanded language services for Spanish-speaking patients throughout the organization.
October 16, 2007
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Program Result Report
Temple University Health System in Philadelphia developed and promoted language services for Spanish-speaking patients in all of the system's hospitals and recruited, trained and credentialed six health care interpreters.
October 16, 2007
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Program Result Report
Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos was the first national effort to help health care organizations meet the challenge of providing language services and signage.
November 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
MasiMax Resources, a health and human services consulting firm, helped plan and convene a National Conference on Tobacco and Health Disparities, December 11-15, 2002, in Tampa Bay, Fla.
December 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
The University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine and the Lenape Tribal Nation of Pennsylvania convened a multidisciplinary "Summit on Indian Health Care," June 9-11, 2005.
December 19, 2007
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Further narrowing will require interventions that address specific conditions responsible for the remaining gap.