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June 13, 2012 | Journal Article
Contrary to researchers' expectations, in a homogeneous group of select mid-career academic physicians, men earned $12,000 more in salary than their female peers.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Muslims may seek health care differently than other patients based on religious concerns about cross-gender interaction with providers.
June 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Last week, on the New York Times Well Blog, New York University School of Medicine professor Danielle Ofri, MD, wrote about the "perception bias" that doctors are male. These presumptions persist, she writes, even though they lag far behind reality ...
June 12, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar's research finds gender disparity persists, even after accounting for physicians' specialty, productivity, family status, and other factors.
January 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.
July 27, 2011 | Story
Just being in a medically oriented academic environment with people from a wide variety of backgrounds was valuable, Cordero says. "For me, it was like Wow - there are some Native Americans who are doctors."
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Perceived post-September 11 abuse and discrimination were associated with increased psychological distress, reduced levels of happiness and worse health status in our sample. Community based, culturally sensitive partnerships should be established to assess and meet the health needs of Arab Americans.
January 4, 2005 | Journal Article
Approximately 45 percent of international trips from the United States (not including trips to Mexico or Canada) were described by travelers as "visiting friends and relatives" (VFR). The present article provided a description of VFR travelers and d ...
May 6, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and colleagues nationally examined the differences in work conditions between ambulatory clinics that serve large numbers of minority patients and clinics that do not.
February 9, 2009 | Journal Article
Primary-care clinics serving 30 percent or more minority patients were more chaotic than clinics with fewer minority patients, employed more women physicians, and had less access to medical supplies and referral specialists. These factors contribute to physician burnout, and are sources of disparities in health-care delivery to minority patients.