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Quick Facts |
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What are health disparities? |
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"Health disparities
are differences in the incidence, prevalence,
mortality, and burden of diseases and other
adverse health conditions that exist among specific
population groups in the United States”
(NIH definition). |
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Who are affected? |
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Racial and ethnic minority
populations are affected, African Americans,
Asians, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics and Latinos,
Native Americans, and Native Alaskans. |
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Racial and ethnic
minorities experience serious disparities in
which areas of health? |
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Infant Mortality, Cancer
Screening and Management, Cardiovascular Disease,
Diabetes, HIV Infection/AIDS and Immunizations. |
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Yale-Howard Partnership Center
at Howard University Division of
Nursing, 501 Bryant Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20059
www.cpnahs.howard.edu |
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Addressing Health Disparities: The
NIH program of action |
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Goals and Objectives |
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To develop a five-year
Strategic Research Agenda |
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To recruit and train minority investigators |
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To advance community outreach activities |
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To form new and enhance current partnerships
with minority and other organizations that have similar
goals to close health gaps |
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To define, code, track, analyze and
evaluate progress more uniformly across the agency |
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To enhance public awareness |
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