Achieving health equity: Closing the gaps in health care disparities, interventions, and research

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1410-1415

  Purnell, Tanjala S ^a   Calhoun, Elizabeth A ^b   Golden, Sherita H ^a   Halladay, Jacqueline R ^c   Krok Schoen, Jessica L ^d   Appelhans, Bradley M ^e   Cooper, Lisa A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; ACHIEVEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; POVERTY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84982304831     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0158     Document Type: Article

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