Latest Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions Stories

Former HHS Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan and colleagues will focus on new initiatives in health disparities research and intervention WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reflective of the vision and teachings of William Montague Cobb, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D about health disparities, the Cobb Institute has announced its inaugural class of Senior Fellows. This distinguished community of scholars represents demonstrated leadership and expertise in addressing health...

African-Americans Hit Hardest by Increased Costs WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report released today by the National Urban League Policy Institute (www.nul.org) found that African-Americans continue to pay a disproportionate price for health disparities, spending $54.9 billion of the total $82.2 billion for the U.S. in healthcare costs and lost productivity. The report, The State of Urban Health: Eliminating Health Disparities to Save Lives and Cut Costs...

Analysis of interventions in 5 diseases offers guidelines to help close the gap Major disparities exist along racial and ethnic lines in the United States for various medical conditions, but guidance is scarce about how to reduce these gaps. Now, a new "roadmap" has been unveiled to give organizations expert guidance on how to improve health equity in their own patient populations. Finding Answers, a national program based at the University of Chicago and funded by the Robert Wood...

The racial and ethnic composition of a community is associated with the obesity risk of individuals living within the community, according to a study led by researchers at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings, published in the June 14 edition of the American Journal of Public Health, may help explain disparities in obesity rates among racial groups and point to some of the environmental factors that may...

In an effort to reduce and eventually eliminate cancer disparities among adults in the Philadelphia region, the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson has established the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities. Philadelphia, Pa (PRWEB) February 17, 2012 In an effort to reduce and eventually eliminate cancer disparities among adults in the Philadelphia region, the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson has established the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities. Edith P. Mitchell, M.D., FACP, a...

Most studies that have examined growing levels of health disparity in the United States have focused on the gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” in terms of socioeconomic factors such as education and income. But a new study has found, for the first time, that health disparities have grown dramatically among people in the same socioeconomic groups – often times more than the disparities have grown between groups. For example, researchers found that health disparities...

A study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review has brought new understanding as to why death rates for less educated middle aged adults are much higher than for their more educated peers despite increased awareness and treatments aimed at reducing health disparities. For decades, data has shown that middle aged adults with low education levels—that is high school or less—are twice as likely to die as those with higher education levels. Professor Richard Miech, of the...

"Cancer Disparities: Causes and Evidence-Based Solutions" is the first book to examine the racial, socioeconomic, and biological factors that influence cancer incidence and survival, and is a major contribution to the cancer and health disparities field. This title is co-published by the American Cancer Society and Springer Publishing Company, and edited by Drs. Ronit Elk and Hope Landrine. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 08, 2011 "Cancer Disparities: Causes and Evidence-Based...

According to new study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association Large disparities exist in obesity and other chronic diseases across racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Are racial differences in diet, exercise, and weight status related to better knowledge about healthy eating and awareness of food-related health risks? Or are they more closely related to differences in socioeconomic status (SES)? A new study published in the December issue of the Journal of the...

Where you live could play a larger role in health disparities than originally thought, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  They examined a racially integrated, low-income neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland and found that, with the exception of smoking, nationally reported disparities in hypertension, diabetes, obesity among women and use of health services disappeared or narrowed. The results are featured in the October 2011...