Health disparity
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Broader Terms
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Related Terms
health care quality, health care service availability, health care service utilization, health economics, medically underserved population, outcomes research, racial /ethnic difference, socioeconomics
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Scope Note
a population-specific difference in the presence of disease, health outcomes or access to care.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- One possibly useful way to approach the measurement of health disparity is to consider a sequence of methodological approaches.
- The health disparity is also highly correlated (R2 = 0.
- Clayton, both African-American physicians who teach at Harvard University, tell us in plain language that todays crisis of Black health disparity is not new, nor is it adequately explained by oversimplified health sermons about poor lifestyle and bad behavioral choices.
- Another important issue in using unweighted measures of health disparity is their inability to incorporate the demographic changes that inevitably occur over time.
- Use the form below to search for projects and interventions to health disparity challenges in our communities.
- KEY WORDS: Adolescence; Internet; Health Education; Health Disparity; Family Planning; Sexually Transmitted Diseases .
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