5076.1: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| In October of 2001 Public Health Reports will release an issue devoted to racial and ethnic disparities in health. The purpose of this session is to present findings from some of the papers that will appear in this issue and also to stimulate critical thinking and discussion about the initiatives aimed at reducing and eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States. Although the effort to combat these disparities is receiving a substantial amount of attention and a fair amount of resources, most evidence suggests that this effort is failing. Indeed, one of the papers to be presented in this session demonstrates that disparities are not improving but are rather worsening in Chicago. Related research indicates that the growth in disparities may be due to structural issues such as racism and income inequality, both of which show signs of intensifying. What then are we doing in this effort to combat disparities? Are we studying the most appropriate factors? Are we employing those interventions which research indicates may help the most? Does access to health care impact on disparities and if so have we arranged access in an optimal manner? All of these questions and others will be discussed in this session. The disparities initiatives are all dressed up and ready to go. The question is: Are they wearing any clothes? | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. to better understand race, ethnicity, and health disparities. | ||||
| Steven Whitman, PhD | ||||
| You Can’t Leap a Chasm in Two Jumps: Reflections on the Institute of Medicine Healthcare Quality Report Gordon D. Schiff, MD, Quentin Young, MD | ||||
| Evaluation of the Healthy People 2000 Goal of Reducing Disparities: a Chicago Case Study Abigail Silva, MPH, Steven Whitman, PhD, Helen Margellos, David Ansell | ||||
| Racial Residential Segregation: A Fundamental Cause of Racial Disparities in Health David R. Williams, PhD, Chiqiuta Collins | ||||
| Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the HIV and Substance Abuse Epidemics: Communities Responding to the Need Hortensia Amaro, PhD, Anita Raj, PhD, Rodolfo R. Vega, Thomas W. Mangione, PhD, Lucille Norville Perez | ||||
| The Relationship between Mortality and Socioeconomic Factors in Blacks and Whites in US Metropolitan Areas Richard S. Cooper, Joan Kennelly, RN, MPH, PhD, Roman Durazo-Arvizu, Perpetua Ruiz, Hyun-Joo Oh, George Kaplan, John Lynch, PhD | ||||
| Sponsor: | Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||