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Program to provide grants to the nation's schools of dentistry to expand the level of student aid support for students whose social background might lead them to select underserved areas for their professional practice.
July 27, 2011 | Story
Growing up in Alaska, she knew no female physicians, no Native American physicians and no physicians of color. "You don't know what you can do until you're exposed to the possibility," she says.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Patients, providers and the health care system all are contributing factors in higher cancer mortality among minorities.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Community-based disparities education allows future physicians to more fully understand and appreciate how social and contextual factors impact health.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Society of General Internal Medicine's Health Disparities Curriculum is found to be an effective tool in the effort to develop health care providers who are both committed and prepared to eliminate disparities in health care quality.
April 13, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between incarceration and cardiovascular disease among young adults. Previous incarceration is linked to hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy in young adults.
March 19, 2009 | Journal Article
Heart failure in African Americans under 50 occurs at 20 times the incidence of heart failure in Caucasians under 50. Additionally, risk factors for this condition--obesity, kidney disease, and hypertension--are already present in young African Americans, and go largely unaddressed.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study investigated the relationship between childbirth and five-year incidence of obesity.
July 10, 2006 | Journal Article
African Americans are affected disproportionately by heart disease and chronic kidney disease, which is a risk factor for heart failure. Researchers in this study looked at incidence of heart failure and measures of kidney function in 1,124 African ...
October 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The current study examined the role of demographic and socioeconomic factors, such as race, wealth, and income, on older adults' use of preventive health services. The study participants were 2,968 women 65 years of age and older enrolled in two Med ...