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Winning a Healthier Future: LGBT Communities in the Health Equity and Accountability Act
No full textIn 1985, the groundbreaking “Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health” called the “tragic dilemma” of health disparities among minority communities “an affront to both our ideals and the ongoing genius of American medicine.” More than 25 years later, these disparities persist, even as recognition of their reach and efforts to eliminate them have grown.
According to the recently introduced Health Equity and Accountability Act, “Health disparities are a function of not only access to health care, but also the social determinants of health—including the environment, the physical structure of communities, nutrition and food options,
Low-Quality, High-Cost Hospitals, Mainly In South, Care For Sharply Higher Shares Of Elderly Black, Hispanic, And Medicaid Patients
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High-Quality Health Care: The Essential Route To Eliminating Disparities And Achieving Health Equity
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5 Diseases More Common in Minorities
No full textAlthough more and more people are living longer with colorectal cancer, new research has found that black people with the disease aren't living as long as whites.
In an analysis of more than 14,000 patients with stage 2 and 3 colorectal cancer who had surgery to remove tumors, followed by treatment to prevent recurrence, the 1,218 African-American patients had a lower five-year survival rate than their white counterparts, according to researchers, led by Greg Yothers of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Biostatistical Center in Pittsburgh.
Five years after diagnosis, 72.8 percent of white patients survived cancer, but
GUEST EDITORIAL: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EQUITY: A CALL TO ACTION FOR SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
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Healthy People 2010 Final Review
Get PDFThe Healthy People 2010 Final Review presents a quantitative end-of-decade assessment of progress in achieving the Healthy People 2010 objectives and goals over the course of the decade. This report was compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with considerable input from the Department of Health and Human Service’s lead agencies for the Healthy People initiative. The Healthy People Federal Interagency Workgroup and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion served in a review capacity.
The Healthy People 2010 Final Review continues the series of profiles of the Nation’s health objectives
Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Black Women: Implications for Health Equity
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