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April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines national working-age mortality rates and working-age mortality rates in high-poverty rural and urban regions. This study provides insight into how mortality rates in poor regions have changed since 1980.
December 8, 2011 | Story
A profile of Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD, PNP-BC, RN, Nurse Faculty Scholar.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
U.S. Blacks with colorectal cancer are increasingly more likely to die than their White peers diagnosed at similar stages of the disease, probably due to differences in care, according to this analysis of national data from the past four decades.
February 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This study analyzes how stigma attaches to particular health disorders, and how the association becomes loosened. Focusing on a few disorders, including hookworm, cancer, and sickle cell anemia, the author illustrates the interaction of disease, race and stigma.
April 10, 2009 | Story
Remembering John Hope Franklin, a pioneer in U.S. race relations and an advocate for addressing racial disparities in the nation's health care system.
April 1, 2004 | Program Result
In 2002, the ABC Radio Networks produced public service health messages that were broadcast from September through December 2002 to the largely African American audience of its Urban Advantage Network.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
In 1999, New Jersey's Office of Minority Health convened a summit of state leaders to address the problem of continued disparities in minority health care status and outcomes in New Jersey.
June 25, 2008 | Program Result
From 1995 to 2000, a team at Harvard Medical School investigated racial differences in access to kidney transplants in patients with end-stage renal disease (kidney failure).
March 20, 2007 | News Release
The gap in black and white life expectancy has declined.
October 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Health Research and Educational Trust, Chicago, convened the Sixth National Community Care Network Conference, "Beyond the Barriers: Building Innovative Networks of Care."