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![]() 4268.0 Epidemiology of social justice and health disparitiesTuesday, November 9, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session will include presentations relating to the theme of this year’s annual meeting (social justice) and health disparities. Three presentations will expound upon residential segregation: one will focus on hypertension; one will discuss the concept of structural racism; and the last will cover a multilevel analysis of health disparities. Perceptions of racial discrimination, mental health and health care utilization and rural air pollutants and children's health will be the topics of other presentations.
Session Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the learner (participant) will be able to:
1) Identify associations between perceptions of racial discrimination and health care utilization;
2) Discuss the concept of structural racism in terms of city level policies that might affect neighborhood contexts; and
3) Describe a unique cell-based multilevel analysis method useful in examination of mortality rates and other indicators of population health.
Moderator:
Xiaoxing He, MD, MPH
2:30pm
Introductory Remarks
3:20pm
3:35pm
Discussion
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. Organized by: Epidemiology
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)
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