4220.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| Mounting evidence is defining and illuminating the role of social and economic inequalities in determining health status, and access to high quality health care. In this session leading researchers review the scientific basis for these findings and their implications for policy, and examine the rhetorical backlash that has surfaced in response. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will understand the links between disparities in health care by race, and the backlash against the evidence. 2. Participants will learn the structural and economic issues underlying disparities in health status by race and income 3. Participants will understand the importance of a rigorous definition of inequalities in health | ||||
| Nancy Krieger, PhD Barbara Krimgold | ||||
| Raynard Kington, MD, PhD Ellen R Shaffer, PhD | ||||
| Ellen R Shaffer, PhD | ||||
| Disparities in Health Status by Race & Income: Structural/Economic Issues David Williams, MPH, PhD | ||||
| Disparities in Health Care by Race, and the Backlash H. Jack Geiger, MD, ScD | ||||
| Defining Inequality and Inequity in Health Paula Braveman, MD, MPH | ||||
| Sponsor: | Medical Care | |||
| Cosponsors: | Public Health Nursing; Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||