Study shows even limited training improves communication with patients from other cultures
... physicians are white." According to Beach, racial inequities in health status persist, in part, because of a failure in communication and lack of trust between the physician and the patient - it is a bigger problem than the ability to speak the same language and extends into perceptions of cultural differences...Many patients at risk of cardiovascular disease not receiving statin treatment
...search on cholesterol management. They also showed inequities in use of statins for patients with different social and clinical characteristics, with lower usage in younger patients, females, African-Americans, and patients cared for by doctors who are not cardiologists. Coronary heart disease is the leading c...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...tients. They also raise the issue of geographical inequities among provinces or various health centres. 3) Access to needed health care resources for the growing numbers of aged, chronically ill or mentally ill There are two components to this set of issues, according to the study: The marginalization of pop...Patient navigation provide tools to address barriers to care but need standardization and assessment
...nal barriers that may contribute to well described inequities in cancer care that generally impact minorities, low-income communities, and recent immigrants in the United States. Since the first program was started in New York City in the 1990s, the concept has been adopted in other healthcare settings around t...World's poorest children missing out on child survival strategies
...king economic sense, could contribute to increased inequities unless population coverage is high." "That one in every two poor children in Cambodia, or one in every three in Haiti, do not receive more than a single cost-effective preventive intervention is simply unacceptable," he adds....University of Toronto-led ethics network to help guide Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative
... support 43 groundbreaking research projects. "The inequities in global health are arguably the greatest ethical challenge of our time. Our key goal in this project is to focus on the ethical, social, and cultural factors that influence whether a new technology is adopted by communities in need. Just as the G...Medicare must change the way it values physician services to avert primary care collapse
...ommittee. The improvements could begin correcting inequities in payments to primary care, and therefore begin the reversal necessary to save primary care medicine. Overpriced medical services tend to be ordered more frequently and may contribute to an increase in the total volume of services. Because the Su...Poor, ethnic children at greater risk for exposure to toxic pollutants
... water and towels for proper hand washing." Social inequities also exist for exposure to other environmental pollutants, the authors note, including noise, air pollution, methylmercury from fish, industrial waste and PCBs, although it's not known how these pollutants might act together with other influences on ...New handbook addresses lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health issues
...ve LGBT communities often encounter, including the inequities in health care services available to sexual minorities; the overt prejudice they often face as well as discrimination, disdain, or outright denial of services; the assumption by health professionals of risk factors based on sexual or gender orientati...Concern over rising preterm births
...sexually transmitted diseases, obesity, and social inequities are a good start, they write. Obstetricians should re-evaluate the risks and benefits of delivering babies earlier. If these findings from Denmark are true, the implications for neonatologists, health economists, teachers, parents, and children thems...Study defines effective microbicide design for HIV/AIDS prevention
...countries particularly, cultural and socioeconomic inequities between the sexes also can leave women more susceptible. "In many cases, women lack control over their abilities to protect themselves against the virus," Katz said. "Microbicide development is a response to the demonstrated need for new female-con...Minorities, uninsured less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals
...ient and system factors required to reduce current inequities in the receipt of care at such hospitals," the authors conclude....Congressional action strengthens internal medicine ACP says
...ent of ACP. "These increases address long-standing inequities in how Medicare values physician services. If the SGR cut had not been averted, internists and other primary care physicians would not have seen the long-overdue improvements in payments for their E/M services." The ACP also expressed strong suppor......payments on the use of necessary medical services; inequities in health among insured Americans; scientific misconduct in investigational drug trials; the quality and accuracy of pharmaceutical advertising; and the impact of violence on immigrants' mental health. Shapiro is a member of the American Society fo...