Health Status Disparities
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Mental health disparities.

30 Oct 2009 Mental health disparities have received increased attention in the literature in recent years. After considering 165 different health disparity conditions, the Federal Collaborative for Health Disparities Research chose mental health disparity as ... Read more...

Faith Moves Mountains: an Appalachian cervical cancer prevention program.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To provide a conceptual description of Faith Moves Mountains (FMM), an intervention designed to reduce the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer among Appalachian women. METHODS: FMM, a community-based participatory research program ... Read more...

Association of functional outcome with both personal- and area-level socioeconomic inequalities in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis.

13 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To describe the relationship between baseline area- and person-level social inequalities and functional disability at 3 years in patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis (IP). METHODS: A total of 1,393 patients with new-onset IP ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Status Disparities'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Payment reform for safety-net institutions--improving quality and outcomes. 3 Nov 2009
• Despair on disparities. 30 Oct 2009
• Invited commentary. 30 Oct 2009
• Mental health disparities. 30 Oct 2009
• Faith Moves Mountains: an Appalachian cervical cancer prevention program. 30 Oct 2009
• The state of health in South Africa: quo vadis? 29 Oct 2009
• Towards reducing disparities in disparities research. 19 Oct 2009
• Universal insurance coverage and health care inequity. 18 Oct 2009
• Association of functional outcome with both personal- and area-level socioeconomic inequalities in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis. 13 Oct 2009
• Diversity in public health issues. 29 Sep 2009
• Persistence and change in disparities in HIV infection among injection drug users in New York City after large-scale syringe exchange programs. 29 Sep 2009
• The burden of rotavirus hospitalizations among Medicaid and non-Medicaid children younger than 5 years old. 29 Sep 2009
• A review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's response to the HIV/AIDS crisis among Blacks in the United States, 1981-2009. 29 Sep 2009
• Recommendations from a research consultation to address intervention strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention focused on African Americans. 15 Sep 2009
• Changes not for the fainthearted: reorienting health care systems toward health equity through action on the social determinants of health. 15 Sep 2009
• Collaborating to end health disparities in our lifetime. 15 Sep 2009
• Eliminating health disparities through transdisciplinary research, cross-agency collaboration, and public participation. 15 Sep 2009
• Survival disparities among African American women with invasive bladder cancer in Florida. 13 Sep 2009
• Race does not impact outcome for advanced ovarian cancer patients treated with cisplatin/paclitaxel: an analysis of Gynecologic Oncology Group trials. 13 Sep 2009
• Health and climate change. 13 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Status Disparities'

Definition: Variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between socioeconomic and /or geographically defined population groups.

Descriptor UI: D054624

Alternative terms: Health Status Disparities; Disparities, Health Status; Disparity, Health Status; Health Status Disparity; Status Disparities, Health; Status Disparity, Health;

Tree Number: I01.240.425.675; N01.224.425.437; N06.850.505.400.425.675;

History Note: 2008