Examining the health disparities research plan of the National Institutes of Health : unfinished business /

Examining the health disparities research plan of the National Institutes of Health : unfinished business / Unfinished business Committee on the Review and Assessment of the NIH's Strategic Research Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Gerald E. Thomson, Faith Mitchell, Monique Williams, editors. - xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Health disparities : concepts, measurements, and understanding -- Development and availability of the strategic plan -- Budget and finances -- The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities -- Management of the strategic plan and the health disparities research program -- Public law 106-525 - November 22, 2000; "Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act of 2000" -- Agendas of open meetings -- List of participants providing testimony or written commentary to the committee -- Overview of health disparities, Nancy Adler -- Schematic diagram showing differences, disparities, and discrimination in health care -- National institutes of health NIH health strategic plan fiscal years 2004-2008, volume I [draft] -- Public communications and its role in reducing and eliminating health disparities, Kasisomayajula Viswanath -- NIH committee on minority health and health disparities research definitions and application methodology : final report (revised January 2004) -- Acronyms -- Centers of excellence funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2005 -- NCMHD endowment program awardees -- Summary of recommendations -- Committee and staff biographies. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. App. A. App. B. App. C. App. D. App. E. App. F. App. G. App. H. App. I. App. J. App. K. App. L. App. M.

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National Institutes of Health (U.S.)


Health services accessibility--United States
Social medicine--United States
Medical policy--United States
Medical care--Evaluation--United States
Cultural pluralism.
Health Services Research
Program Development
Research Design.
Socioeconomic Factors

RA418.3.U6 / E93 2006

362.10425

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