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Racial
Disparities in Health Outcomes
Separate
and Unequal: Medical Apartheid in New York City
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Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)
Bronx
Health REACH, a community coalition led by the Institute
for Urban Family Health, conducted a study that found pervasive
segregation of health care services, based on the link between
race, ethnicity and insurance status. Their report contains
findings and recommendations for change. October, 2005
Learn
more about the Bronx
Health REACH coalition.
Make
Health Equality a Reality
(Requires
Powerpoint to view; use the PageDown and PageUp keys to
advance to the next slide.) This presentation, containing data on health disparities,
is designed to educate health care providers about the pervasiveness
of racial and ethnic health disparities and the steps that
can be taken to eliminate such inequity. Presented at
the NYS Association of Family Practitioners, June 2004.
From
Research to Social Action: Engaging the Public's Trust through
a Sustained Partnership Committed to Solving the Problems
We Study. Presentation to the NIH Director's Council of Public
Representatives, April 2004.
Sullivan
Commission Testimony
October,
2003 (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)
Alarming
statistics reveal that minority enrollment in health professional
schools is very low -- Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians
make up more than 25 percent of the U.S. population but
less than 14 percent of physicians, 9 percent of nurses,
and 5 percent of dentists. The
Institute's Dr. Neil Calman and Maxine Golub, MPH, testified
before a commission led by former HHS Secretary Louis W.
Sullivan, M.D., on the impact of this trend.
Out
of the Shadow
(On
the Web site of Health Affairs Magazine)
A white inner-city doctor wrestles
with racial prejudice. By Neil Calman, M.D., president
of the Institute for Urban Family Health. Published
by Health Affairs, "Business of Health," January/February,
2000. Volume 19 Number 1, Project HOPE -- The People-to-People
Health Foundation, Inc.
Racial
Disparities in Health Outcomes
Eyewitness
News Tiempo’s Joe Torres interviewed Maxine Golub,
senior vice president of the Institute for Urban Family
Health, on November 26, 2000.
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