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Improving Participation Rates for Women of Color in Health Research: The Role of Group Cohesion
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Healthy Start
No full textAmong the Ojibway, Odawa and Potawatomi people, Tribal communities in Michigan collectively known as the People of the Three Fires, women, infants and families often do not receive the healthcare and prevention services that they need to maintain good health. A variety of factors contribute to compromised maternal and child health (MCH) within Native American communities. These include high rates of smoking, substance abuse, domestic violence and chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Excessive post neonatal deaths and SIDS, which are two to four times greater than for Whites, are significant concerns. In addition, many American Indians suffer
A Multiinstitutional, Multidisciplinary Model for Developing and Teaching Translational Research in Health Disparities
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System-Level Health Disparities in California Emergency Departments: Minorities and Medicaid Patients Are at Higher Risk of Losing Their Emergency Departments
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Sustaining Community-University Partnerships: Lessons learned from a participatory research project with elderly Chinese
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Sustaining Community-University Collaborations: The Durham University Model
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Diversity and General Student Scholarship Recipient Essays: 2010 National Society of Genetic Counselors Membership Committee
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Providers’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding BRCA1/2 Genetic Counseling and Testing in African American Women
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Improvements, database urged in wake of 1940s research
No full textA presidential ethics panel said that federally sponsored research involving human subjects provides adequate safeguards to reduce risk but also recommended some improvements such as the creation of a central, publicly available database to keep track of experiments.
In a report released today, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues suggested 14 changes to current practices and called on the federal government to improve the way it monitors research supported by taxpayers.
The report is the second phase of a government mission undertaken in the wake of revelations in 2010 that John Cutler, a former U.S. Public Health