New report from CAP’s Meredith King details how prevention can be used to decrease racial and ethnic health disparities. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite the overall improved health of Americans ...

Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...

The HealthPartners Institute is embarking on a study to help determine whether health workers who encourage people to live healthier lives can drive down long-term emergency or hospitalization costs ...

Rep. Christensen (D-VI) joined an expert panel to discuss a new report on how we can begin reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. “We will no longer tolerate a nation with health disparities,” ...

An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a one-day public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussion of community-based health literacy interventions. Potential areas of focus ...

We report here results from a randomized-controlled trial of a home-based educational intervention to reduce pesticide exposures to farmworkers’ children. This study was conducted in Monterey County, ...

Violence is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States and abroad, with far-reaching consequences for individuals and communities. Interventions that address environmental and social ...

The First Annual Research Day of the Community Health Equity Research Institute last week was a huge success. The event generated great interest throughout the UB campus and the community. We received ...

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets,” physician and health-policy expert Paul Batalden said. 1 This much-repeated quote captures a way to conceptualize equitable ...

This paper aims to bring clarity to the conceptual confusion between community and population health, which currently impacts progress in both research and clinical practice. Community and population ...

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