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January 1, 2004 | Book
David Williams further develops the disparities issue as it affects racial and ethnic groups. He shows that such health disparities are large and persistent. Like Link and Phelan, he sees them as embedded in larger influences, primarily socioeconomi ...
April 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
In 2002, researchers at seven universities expanded a CDC-funded study about the factors that affect the physical activity levels of racially and ethnically diverse women.
January 27, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2001, the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy produced a theme issue dedicated to health and health policy issues that affect African-American communities. The journal also sponsored a conference focused on this topic in 1999.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 2000, Tuskegee University's Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care conducted a roundtable discussion about African-American perspectives on end-of-life care in order to plan a national conference on the same topic.
April 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Latino Research Program Project of the University of Puerto Rico sponsored a conference aimed at increasing research that explores the reasons for disparities in Latino access to mental health care and potential solutions.
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The National Public Health and Hospital Institute assessed the status and progress of urban hospitals in addressing sociocultural barriers to health care access.
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Spectrum Unlimited of New Orleans, La., published an expanded distribution of a 1996-97 special edition of the Journal for Minority Medical Students called "Keepsake: A Guide for Minority Premed Students," to 3,000 premedical minority students.
January 1, 2000 | Book
This program provides a summer enrichment experience for minority college students who possess the academic qualifications that would gain entrance to medical school.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The program developed and implemented community-based interventions that would address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.
May 6, 2008 | Program Result Report
Staff at the American Medical Association (AMA) conducted a series of planning activities designed to build and formalize the Commission to End Health Care Disparities.