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Rising Closures Of Hospital Trauma Centers Disproportionately Burden Vulnerable Populations
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Disparities Cloud Health Improvements In Past Decade, Report Finds
No full textMinority and low-income groups continue to be less likely to have a regular source of health care when compared to the general population, despite efforts over the past decade to remedy the situation. This and other health disparities persist across race, ethnicity, income level and education, according to the final review of Healthy People 2010, which was released Thursday.
Healthy People 2010, the third such effort by federal officials, is a decade-long initiative which established an ambitious set of goals in November 2000 to improve the health of all Americans, and the report details how the country did.
Progress has
Social Determinants and Health Service Use Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Findings From a Community Sample
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Lawyers, doctors team up to reduce health disparities
No full textOn Kate Marr’s first day practicing law at The Children’s Clinic in Long Beach last week, she met with the mother of an asthmatic 7-year-old. Health clinic workers sent the woman, a Mexican immigrant, to Marr's office because they suspected there was a connection between the boy’s asthma and the family's apartment – where paint peels from the walls, cockroaches inhabit the floorboards and only one electrical outlet functions.
An attorney who has practiced with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles for more than a decade, Marr is now seeing clients at the clinic two days a week as part of a new medical-legal program that seeks to address the issues underlying patient treatment
Differential Association of Race With Treatment and Outcomes in Medicare Patients Undergoing Diverticulitis Surgery
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Impacts of Sustained Institutional Participation in Service-Learning: Perspectives from faculty, staff and administrators
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For Me For Us
No full textPromoting healthy weight, access to health care and healthy births to diverse Utah communitie
