Sentences with phrase «racial health disparities»

Currie and Alexander's study suggests that the characteristics of highly segregated neighborhoods may be a major factor behind such persistent racial health disparities.

Sections also include the extent of racial health disparities in the US; the causes; the role of government policies in perpetuating these disparities; the adequacy of government response; and key actions needed to address health disparities.

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In August 2012, the Michigan Department of Community Health released an Infant Mortality Reduction Plan to combat infant mortality and reduce disparities among racial and ethnic groups.

Prior to joining Urban Strategies, Diana was a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she created the foundation's First Food portfolio, which supports increased breastfeeding to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities and improve the health and wellbeing of mothers, children and communities.

His research interests include examination of racial disparities in birth outcomes and child health; the adequacy and content of pre-conception, prenatal and inter-conception care; child health services; home visiting, child nutrition; fatherhood; and health data policy.

The scope and depth of racial disparities across various health indicators and in breastfeeding — life's earliest health intervention — can not be ignored.

«These initiatives will work to correct unacceptable racial disparities in health outcomes, provide critical support to new and expecting parents, and help ensure a healthier and stronger New York for all.»

The MMR Board will also be tasked with developing recommendations to the Commissioner of Health on strategies to address Severe Maternal Morbidity and racial disparities.

Contributions include discussions on racial disparities in special education placements, the intersection of disability with other identity variables such as gender and sexuality; the exploitation of disabled bodies to generate resources for humanitarian projects; and suggestions for how a human rights framework can promote inclusivity and better health outcomes.

«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

«Massachusetts health reform did not lower preventable hospitalizations or reduce racial disparities.»

«Research is now showing that many health effects once attributed to racial differences are actually tied to educational and economic disparities,» she says.

Sen, who also studies public - health issues such as racial disparities in obesity, wanted to follow up the firearm study, but shelved the idea for lack of funding.

The study did not ascribe a specific cause for the racial disparities but offered six possible explanations: conscious or unconscious provider biases; patient mistrust; health literacy; patient - physician communication breakdown; healthcare access barriers; and / or race - based differences in disease biology.

«I'd like to see NIH go to a three - pronged standard [that includes socioeconomic factors],» she says, «so long as MARC students still demonstrate a desire to look at the racial disparities in our health care system.»

An analysis of survey data from participants in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)- based Disparities Leadership Program — a yearlong executive education initiative designed to help health care leaders address racial and ethnic disparities in health care services — has identified five important strategies that helped participants implement successful projects for their inDisparities Leadership Program — a yearlong executive education initiative designed to help health care leaders address racial and ethnic disparities in health care services — has identified five important strategies that helped participants implement successful projects for their indisparities in health care services — has identified five important strategies that helped participants implement successful projects for their institutions.

«Our study is the first to show that culturally tailored, health literature educational materials can decrease these racial disparities in stroke preparedness outcomes.»

«Investigating racial disparities could provide insight into the overall alcohol - sleep relationship, susceptibility differences in sleep homeostasis / architecture across groups, and its subsequent impact on health outcomes.»

The CDC has known for decades that racial and ethnic differences in breastfeeding rates result in life - long health disparities between black, white and Hispanic infants.

«These findings suggest that intersections between law enforcement and trauma care activities are varied, but carry the potential to affect outcomes, alter trust in the health care system, and affect racial disparities in injury recovery,» said Jacoby.

The researchers say their findings, published in the October / December 2015 issue of the journal Family & Community Health, indicate that differences in social and living environments may help to explain racial disparities that exist nationally for habits and lifestyle choices that play a key role in the health of U.SHealth, indicate that differences in social and living environments may help to explain racial disparities that exist nationally for habits and lifestyle choices that play a key role in the health of U.Shealth of U.S. men.

While PrEP is available in the United States, Beyrer says it is accessible only when people have health insurance to pay for it, and there are real racial and economic disparities when it comes to who actually gets it.

«Understanding racial differences in behaviors that affect men's health is an important step toward reducing health disparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Soluhealth is an important step toward reducing health disparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Soluhealth disparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparitiesdisparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities SoluHealth, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities SoluHealth and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities SoluHealth Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities SoluHealth DisparitiesDisparities Solutions.

As to the reason why certain racial and ethnic minorities have poorer rates of treatment for cardiovascular disease and generally have poorer cardiovascular health outcomes compared to white patients, Dr. Ladapo concludes that no one has really explored whether there could be disparities in cardiac stress testing, which is a mainstay of diagnosing patients with heart disease in this country.

The report, which was recently published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, was one of the first to look at ethnic group differences in overweight children living in Canada.

In what is believed to be the first comprehensive examination of trends in cardiac stress testing utilizing imaging, researchers also showed that there are no significant racial or ethnic health disparities in its use.

Helping women prevent and survive heart attacks through increased research and improving ethnic and racial disparities in prevention and treatment is a public health priority,» she said.

«While racial disparities in surgical outcomes have been reported in adult health care, less is known about possible disparities in pediatric surgery,» said first author David I. Chu, M.D., a fellow in Pediatric Urology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Stratified reports could also raise awareness of racial disparities in care, provide a framework for feedback and accountability of health plans and clinicians, and ideally promote effective efforts to improve care for patients who experience worse outcomes, particularly black Americans with diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease.

March 17, 2016 Shared decision - making can improve health care outcomes for LGBTQ racial and ethnic minority patients Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) patients who are also racial and ethnic minorities suffer significant health disparities, while facing more complicated challenges than white LGBTQ or racial and ethnic minority patients alone.

Objectives To assess variations among Medicare health plans in overall quality and racial disparity in 4 Health Plan Employer and Data Information Set (HEDIS) outcome measures, to determine whether high - performing plans exhibit smaller racial disparities, and to identify plans with high quality and low disphealth plans in overall quality and racial disparity in 4 Health Plan Employer and Data Information Set (HEDIS) outcome measures, to determine whether high - performing plans exhibit smaller racial disparities, and to identify plans with high quality and low dispHealth Plan Employer and Data Information Set (HEDIS) outcome measures, to determine whether high - performing plans exhibit smaller racial disparities, and to identify plans with high quality and low disparity.

Third, have any specific health plans achieved both high overall quality and low racial disparity on 1 or more HEDIS outcome measures?

Since 2003, the National Healthcare Disparities Report has provided information on the quality of care by race and ethnicity, but this report has not assessed racial disparities in the quality of clinical care within health plans or health care delivery organDisparities Report has provided information on the quality of care by race and ethnicity, but this report has not assessed racial disparities in the quality of clinical care within health plans or health care delivery organdisparities in the quality of clinical care within health plans or health care delivery organizations.12

His most recently awarded grants are from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, where he is Co-PI of the program project grant, «Eliminating Racial Disparities in Health,» and from the Centers for Disease Control where he is PI of a constituent case - case project comparing prostate cancer outcomes among African Americans and Caucasians.

Perrin PB, Krch D, Sutter M, Snipes DJ, Arango - Lasprilla JC, Kolakowsky - Hayner SA, Wright J, & Lequerica A. Racial / ethnic disparities in mental health over the first two years after traumatic brain injury: A model systems study.

Hayes is interested in the impact of chemical contaminants on environmental health and public health, with a specific interest in the role of pesticides in global amphibian declines and environmental justice concerns associated with targeted exposure of racial and ethnic minorities to endocrine disruptors and the role that exposure plays in health care disparities.

April 4, 2018 • Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., his hometown still has major racial disparities in mortality and other measures of health.

Asthma is one of the most common chronic illnesses for children in the United States, and rates have reached historically high levels nationally with large racial / ethnic health disparities.

Education is just one sector with racial disparities, but the same root causes affect outcomes in health care, criminal justice, child welfare, banking, housing, employment, and other areas of society.

This paper provides an overview of racial variations in health and shows that differences in socioeconomic status (SES) across racial groups are a major contributor to racial disparities in health.

Ten largest racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States based on Healthy People 2010 objectives

See U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2015: With Special Feature on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Table 50, p 192.

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As the membership association for Healthy Start programs nationwide, NHSA promotes the development of community - based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of infant mortality, low birth weight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.

The federal Healthy Start initiative, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) addresses racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes by supporting projects in communities that experience high infant mortality rates.

This webpage highlights the mental health month toolkit, which includes resources on how to limit ethnic and racial disparities and mental health information specific to African - American and Latino families.

Nineteen sites focused on the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in perinatal health are added to the Healthy Start program.

«Planned Parenthood is opposed to racism and prejudice of any kind and is committed to ending the racial disparities in health care, including reproductive health care, that disproportionately affect African Americans, Latinos and so many others.