Strategies to Reduce Health Disparities
11-14-11
At Finding Answers, we're working to find out what works—and what doesn't—to reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities. Our new grants portfolio is a resource for health care organizations…Read More |
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Care About Your Care
9-01-11
Care About Your Care is a month-long effort to raise awareness about what you can do to identify and get better health care.
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Using Peer Review Office Visits to Overcome Clinical Inertia and Reduce Disparities
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Study Shows that Culturally Appropriate Storytelling May Help Control Blood Pressure
1-18-11
A new study shows that culturally appropriate storytelling may help control blood pressure in African Americans with hypertension, according to an article published in the January 18 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. …Read More |
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Physicians may need more than cultural competency training to combat racial disparities in diabetes care
1-05-10
Providing cultural competency training and performance report cards for physicians may not be enough to significantly improve the health of African-American diabetic patients, according to a study published in the…Read More |
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Researchers Discuss How Patient-Centered Care Can Reduce Disparities at Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
5-14-09
Patient-centered approaches to reducing racial and ethnic disparities are promising, yet few organizations know how to create, implement, and evaluate them. During a workshop presented at the Society of General…Read More |
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Finding Answers leads Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Special Session on Health Disparities at 2008 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research
10-03-08
Nurse-led patient-centered interventions within the context of wider systems change show great promise in reducing health disparities. Because nurses often spend more time with patients and can provide critical care…Read More |
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Racial Disparities in Diabetes Outcomes Widespread Across Individual Physicians
Black patients with diabetes fared worse than white patients
6-09-08
Primary care physicians caring for patients with diabetes have worse outcomes among their black patients than their white patients, reports a study, funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson…Read More |
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Now that racial and ethnic health care disparities have been well documented, what is being done to reduce them in real-world settings?
3-11-08
A study, published as a Grant Watch Report in Health Affairs, analyzes the brief proposals received and awards made during the first round of Finding Answers:Disparities Research for Change…Read More |
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Study Finds Doctors May Not Recognize Health Disparities
2-04-08
With extensively documented racial disparities in health and healthcare in the US, primary care physicians could play a pivotal role in closing the gap. It is difficult to imagine that…Read More |
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MacArthur “Genius” Award Honors Finding Answers National Advisory Committee Member
9-25-07
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, an expert in minority health is recognized for landmark studies on racial barriers to care. Our sincerest congratulations to Dr. Lisa Cooper! Read more about Dr.…Read More |
