Sentences with phrase «on health disparities»

Few studies have been conducted on health disparities and functional outcomes in SCI despite the fact that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to develop secondary complications, be unemployed, and have compromised quality of life.

He highlighted Ruffin's efforts to train more than 3000 health professionals and organize research summits on health disparities.

April 5, 2016 Center for Asian Health Equity holds public launch on health disparities Researchers, health care providers, trainees and community members will come together for a forum on Asian - American health disparities as a kickoff event celebrating Chicago's new Center for Asian Health Equity.

For the past 12 years, he has organized the annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities that attract national speakers and participants.

BETHESDA, Md., Sept 9, 2002 - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NGHRI) has appointed Vence L. Bonham, Jr., J.D., to a one - year appointment as NHGRI's Senior Consultant to the Director on Health Disparities.

Denise Krch, PhD, research scientist at Kessler Foundation, is conducting a presentation on Thursday, April 19 during the online meeting of the Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR), Interagency Subcommittee on Medical Rehabilitation (ISMR) and Interagency Subcommittee on Health Disparities (ISHD).

As a publicly engaged scholar, Glennys» research focuses on health disparities, educational inequalities, food injustice, and social justice issues affecting the Dominican immigrant community in Greater Boston.

In December 2015, the Washington Governor's Interagency Council on Health Disparities formally recommended that low - income women should have access to birth doulas through Medicaid, with services provided by accredited community - based organizations such as Open Arms, in recognition of the powerful potential to reduce adverse birth outcomes.

However, it is less clear that politicians fully appreciate the impact that income and wealth inequalities have on these health disparities.

Findings highlight the need for research on health disparities to examine racially specific influences on service utilization.