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Media Alert Regarding Obama Announcement on Asthma Disparities
DigitalJournal.com (press release) Tomorrow morning, President Obama will report on an action plan to address asthma disparities. The facts are clear. People in urban populations, especially African Americans, Puerto Ricans and persons of multiple race, are at much greater risk of … Obama administration task force announces coordinated action plan to address … |
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New outcome measures may reduce disparities in children with asthma
News-Medical.net Newly proposed asthma outcome measures will help standardize and improve results from the hundreds of millions of dollars the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends annually to study asthma, according to the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, … Standardized outcome measures proposed for asthma clinical research |
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Maryland Plans to End Health Disparities
Patch.com "When you look at the African-American asthma rate, it's much higher than the white population's rate or when you look at the Asian Pacific Islanders' liver cancer rate, it's three times the rate of the population at large," said Cardin. … Health Highlights: April 8, 2011 US Moves to Reduce Health Disparities Govt announces plan to reduce health disparities |
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Govt announces plan to reduce health disparities
The Associated Press In between, they're more likely to suffer from a host of illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and asthma. Part of the problem is access to care: Minorities make up more than half of the 50 million people who are uninsured, … |
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Govt announces plan to reduce health disparities
Fox News In between, they're more likely to suffer from a host of illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and asthma. Part of the problem is access to care: Minorities make up more than half of the 50 million people who are uninsured, … |
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The National Institutes of Health today launched a multidisciplinary network of experts who will explore new approaches to understanding the origins of health disparities, or differences in the burden of disease among population groups. Using state-of-the-science conceptual and computational models, the network’s goal is to identify important areas where interventions or policy changes could have the greatest impact in eliminating health disparities. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), part of NIH, is contracting with the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, to establish the Network on Inequality, Complexity, and Health (NICH).
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