Sentences with phrase «reduce racial differences»

Nevertheless, public policies that reduce differences in skills between blacks and whites before they enter the workforce could substantially reduce racial differences in labor - market outcomes.

Our results should be of particular interest to state public health officials focused on reducing racial differences in health.»

The findings, published in the journal Health Affairs, suggest that state policies could play a key role in further reducing racial differences in mortality.

Not exact matches

«Further studies need to help identify the causes of these racial differences so we can design interventions for hospitals and physician offices that can reduce population level disparities.

If this is the case, and racial and ethnic groups do not have the same distribution of these characteristics, then including controls for these effects might reduce or eliminate differences in award probability.

«The higher risk of tumor recurrence that we observed among African American women was reduced when controlling for those factors, suggesting that these genomic differences contribute, at least partly, to the known racial disparity in the survival of African American and Caucasian breast cancer patients.»

«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 Solutions.

«Further investigation of the reasons for racial and ethnic differences, particularly on a national level, is necessary to identify interventions that may help reduce disparities in pediatric liver transplantation.»

President Obama scolded the nation for perpetuating racial and ethnic gaps, but his Department of Education did nothing to reduce achievement differences, the one disparity that counts.

These types of school - based interventions can also reduce racial, ethnic, and gender differences in student performance.