Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary
Jennifer A. Cohen, Rapporteur, Roundtable on Health Disparities
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH)
US Institute of Medicine (IOM) [210p.] 2008
Available online at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12154
“….In early 2007, the Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Disparities to increase the visibility of racial and ethnic health disparities as a national problem, to further the development of programs and strategies to reduce disparities, to foster the emergence of leadership on this issue, and to track promising activities and developments in health care that could lead to dramatically reducing or eliminating disparities.
The Roundtable s first workshop, Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities, was held in
(1) the importance of differences in life expectancy within the
(2) the reasons for those differences, and
(3) the implications of this information for programs and policy makers….’
Table of Content:
Presenters:
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, associate professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Janis Campbell, the surveillance coordinator for Chronic Disease at the Oklahoma State Department of Health
William (Bill) Dotson is chief of the Bureau of Family, School, and Community Health for the St. Louis Department of Health.
Katherine Gottlieb has an M.B.A. from
Carol Horowitz, assistant professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in
Edward F. Lawlor, currently the dean and William E. Gordon Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at
Christopher J. L. Murray, D.Phil., M.D., is the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the
Lisa Pivec
Charmaine Ruddockproject director,
Diane Schwartz is the president and CEO of the American Conference on Diversity.
Donald M. Suggs, president and publisher of the St. Louis American Newspaper,
Captain Nancy Williams working in the Indian Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
More at: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12154&page=115
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