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Title Challenges and successes in reducing health disparities : workshop summary / Jennifer A. Cohen, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Health Disparities, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Contents Introduction -- The impact of geography on health disparities in the United States : different perspectives -- Clinical and community-development approaches to reducing disparities -- Successful clinical and community-development strategies -- Health disparities in a business environment -- Moving forward -- Agenda of the public meeting held by the roundtable on health disparities -- Workshop presenters' biosketches and participant list -- Eight Americas : investigating mortality disparities across races, counties, and race-counties in the United States -- Community approaches to addressing health disparities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary In early 2007, the Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Disparities to increase the visibility of racial and ethnic health disparities as a national problem, to further the development of programs and strategies to reduce disparities, to foster the emergence of leadership on this issue, and to track promising activities and developments in health care that could lead to dramatically reducing or eliminating disparities. The Roundtable's first workshop, Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities, was held in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 31, 2007, and examined the importance of differences in life expectancy within the United States, the reasons for those differences, and the implications of this information for programs and policy makers.
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Subject Health services accessibility -- United States -- Congresses.
Health services accessibility.
United States.
Health care reform -- United States -- Congresses.
Health care reform.
Medical policy -- United States -- Congresses.
Medical policy.
Minorities -- Medical care -- United States -- Congresses.
Minorities -- Medical care.
Ethnic groups -- Medical care -- United States -- Congresses.
Ethnic groups -- Medical care.
Ethnic groups.
Medical care -- United States -- Regional disparities -- Congresses.
Medical care.
Regional disparities.
Healthcare Disparities.
Health Status Disparities.
Health Care Reform.
Quality of Health Care.
Health Policy.
Socioeconmic Factors.
United States.
Genre/Form Congress.
Electronic books.
Subject Medical care.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Cohen, Jennifer A., 1964-
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Disparities.
Other Form: Print version: Challenges and successes in reducing health disparities. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2008 0309116902 9780309116909 (OCoLC)234146573
ISBN 9780309116916 (electronic book)
0309116910 (electronic book)
128176728X
9781281767288
9780309116909 (print)
0309116902 (print)