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.
Publisher:
National Academies Press,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
xvii, 192 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
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.
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