Metropolitan Fragmentation and Health
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article explores the relationship between metropolitan fragmentation, and racial disparities in mortality among Backs and Whites in the 1990s.
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Publicizing Health Care Services Available to Uninsured and Underserved Populations in Three Cumberland County (N.J.) Communities
November 24, 2008 | Program Result
Health care providers and agencies in Bridgeton, N.J., launched the Mayor's Campaign for Healthier Bridgeton, a collaborative outreach effort to publicize health care services offered to the city's uninsured and underserved populations.
Variation in the Quality of Surgical Care for Uterovaginal Prolapse
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study of the relationship of hospital characteristics to compliance with uterovaginal prolapse treatment recommendations found that although high-volume, teaching and private hospitals had better compliance rates than disproportionate share and public hospitals, compliance rates were low in all hospital types.
Shannon Wiegand, Minority Medical Education Program, 1989
July 27, 2011 | Story
Growing up in Alaska, she knew no female physicians, no Native American physicians and no physicians of color. "You don't know what you can do until you're exposed to the possibility," she says.
Community-Based Teaching about Health Disparities
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Community-based disparities education allows future physicians to more fully understand and appreciate how social and contextual factors impact health.
Perceived Discrimination in Health Care and Health Status in a Racially Diverse Sample
September 1, 2008 | Journal Article
According to a 2004 government survey, more African Americans perceive racial discrimination in their health care than do Whites or Hispanics, but for both populations, this perceived racial discrimination is associated with worse health.
Perceived Discrimination Among Severely Disadvantaged People with HIV Infection
May 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Discourage patients from seeking treatment.
Foreword to Special Supplement of Journal of Dental Education
October 14, 2010 | Journal Article
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), prefaces this special issue of the Journal of Dental Education on RWJF's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community Based Dental Education.
Changes in Emergency Department Access Between 2001 and 2005 Among General and Vulnerable Populations
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Although geographic access to emergency departments has deteriorated in only a small number of communities, these communities tended to be poor, unemployed or Hispanic, suggesting an increasing disparity in access to emergency care.
Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Diseases: A Population-Based Analysis
September 30, 2008 | Story
From 2001–2005, Albert used a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program to conduct a population-based analysis of cardiovascular thrombosis.