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Session: Identifying and Addressing Ethnic and Racial Disparities
3335.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Identifying and Addressing Ethnic and Racial Disparities
Learning Objectives: 1. Assess treatment differentials in statin use by ethnicity; 2. Identify systematic processes of addressing major health and non-health factors that limit provision and utilization of health services; 3. Understand the impact of residential segregation on disparities in utilization; 4. Describe the burden of high blood pressure and the use of blood pressure-lowering medications among California’s adult population; 5. Understand modeling techniques with the dependent variables being count variables.
Presider(s):Carolyn M. Brown, PhD, RPh
2:30 PMSwitching, augmentation and titration of lipid lowering agents of Medicare/Medicaid dual eligible patients by ethnicity  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lisa Mucha, PhD, Tami Mark, PhD, Kirsten Axelsen, MS
2:45 PMBoston Disparities Project: Action Plan For Addressing Ethnic and Racial Disparities  [ Recorded presentation ]
Monica Valdes Lupi, JD, MPH, Ijeoma Genevieve Mbamalu, MPH
3:00 PMDo Residential Segregation and Economic Inequality Explain Race Disparities in Health Services Use?  [ Recorded presentation ]
Darrell Gaskin, PhD, Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD
3:15 PMHigh blood pressure and the use of blood-pressure lowering medications: Findings from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey  [ Recorded presentation ]
Alisa S. Kamigaki, MPH, David J. Reynen, MPH, MPPA, Nan Pheatt, MPH, MT(ASCP), Lily A. Chaput, MD, MPH
3:30 PMRacial and ethnic disparities in the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and their effects on per capita health expenditures
Junling Wang, PhD, Shelley White-Means, PhD, Meghan Hufstader, BA, Genene D. Walker, MS
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Medical Care
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Socialist Caucus; Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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