Health Care Disparities cause of inaccessibility to new technology
Researchers feel that health care disparities occurs in the use of new technology for disease treatment between minorities and children’s, which make them not accessible to new technology and treatments in health care//. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital have reported that Health care disparities is found in minority and children’s affected with asthma and they are less like...Economic and Ethical disparities hinder cervical cancer screening
Professor Geetanjali Dabral Datta and her research team from Harvard School of Public Health, Boston has found social disparities occur in cervical cancer screening for women.// Cervical cancer can be detected early by Pap smear test, which proves to be a very useful and sensitive test for early detection of cervical cancer and early cervical cancer is easily curable compared to late stage cancer...Healthy People 2010 Objectives Aims To Reduce Oral Health Disparities In Society
Scientists from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Marquette University, the Universities of Washington and Illinois, the Center for Disease Control, and the National Center for Health// Statistics will assess the progress made towards achieving the "Healthy People 2010 Oral Health and Health Communication Objectives" (HP 2010) at the combined meeting of the American Asso...Racial disparities in cancer patients in U.S.
According to a study published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, Black American cancer patients are less// likely to question their doctors, they receive less medical information, and they are not as actively involved in their medical care compared to white patients. This may cause less-informed medical decisions, which can have a...Medicare Marked by Widespread Racial disparities
Older whites are likelier than older black adults to have their blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol under control//, although the even if they belong to a high-quality Medicare plan, researchers reported Tuesday. The findings, published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, show that racial disparities are common throughout the Medicare system. L...Karmanos Physician-Scientists Examine Racial Disparities in Patients with Gynecologic Cancer
DETROIT, April 16, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Karmanos CancerInstitute physician-scientists today reported on two researchstudies investigating racial disparities in patients withgynecologic cancer at the American Association of Cancer Researchannual meeting in Los Angeles, CA. Caucasian patients with endometrial or ovarian cancer, onaverage, live longer than their African American count...