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May 1, 2013 | Story
As a Health & Society Scholar, Wizdom Powell Hammond, PhD, MPH, MS, studied psychosocial factors and attitudes among African American men and how these affected their use of health care and trust in the medical system.
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Researchers systematically reviewed the medical literature for interventions conducted within health care systems that have the potential to decrease racial and ethnic disparities in the care of colorectal cancer.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement is a survey of sociological literature examining health and race. The authors revisit a century of contributions from W.E.B. Dubois to Robert Bullard's study of environmental racism.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
African Americans had lower morbidity and mortality, but still suffered from racial barriers in medicine and public health, and poorer health status.
September 1, 2008 | Journal Article
According to a 2004 government survey, more African Americans perceive racial discrimination in their health care than do Whites or Hispanics, but for both populations, this perceived racial discrimination is associated with worse health.
December 1, 2003 | Journal Article
Changing Policies for NIH-Sponsored Publications Reporting Human Variation.
October 6, 2009 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry estimated the impact that eliminating disparities in health care between racial and ethnic minorities and whites would have on minority health.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The American Medical Student Association conducted a survey of medical students that revealed that a majority believe that the U.S. health care system treats people unfairly.
January 1, 2004 | Book
Sara Rosenbaum and Joel Teitelbaum approach the disparities issue from another angle, asking how the law might become an important instrument to push policy change along. They see law as a powerful instrument in American life and examine how classic ...
February 1, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Fifth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations was held October 17-20, 2006 in Seattle.