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Eliminating health disparities: What works?—October 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC October 12, 2011

This month's column unveils the changes to come to this blog and discusses how seemingly novel research will prove valuable in pinpointing disparities.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—September 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC September 09, 2011

This month's column discusses bias against black applicants for NIH grants, tough times for some Southern women, and a significant weakness in the Affordable Care Act.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—August 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC August 10, 2011

A press release from the US Department of Health and Human Services from late June of this year underscores a new and increased focus on the role of data collection in decreasing disparities.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—July 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC July 13, 2011

Work is under way to better understand the term "health equity," how it is are used, and how it can be integrated into academic training environments and clinical practice.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—June 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC June 20, 2011

The author uses some recent literature, and events at the AAPA House of Delegates last month, to argue that social determinants of health demand the clinician's attention.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—May 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC May 03, 2011

Here's a quick run-down of this year's Las Vegas CME topics related to diversity, health disparities, and building in cultural competencies.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—April 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC April 20, 2011

The upcoming AAPA conference in Las Vegas features a not-to-miss talk on the use of a racial designation in the oral or written patient case presentation, the relevance of such designation to patient care, and the effect of such designation on clinician bias and stereotyping.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—March 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC March 23, 2011

Evidence consistently shows that African Americans receive less effective treatment for pain than their white counterparts. The study discussed in this month's column suggests that an intervention called "perspective-taking" can effectively combat this disparity.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—February 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC February 23, 2011

A recent issue of the AMA's "Virtual Mentor" contains an excellent commentary on the different ways that the US and the UK approach obesity. While the UK makes systematic changes in how it approaches obesity, we continue to view it here as an individual, psychological problem of the obese individual.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—January 2011

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC January 06, 2011

Several studies provide evidence that very brief instruction in perspective-taking—a method by which clinicians can enhance empathy—may play a valuable role in building the clinician-patient relationship.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—December 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC December 09, 2010

With a stylish Internet splash, the US Department of Health and Human Services has rolled out Healthy People 2020, placing further (and needed) emphasis on health disparities and social determinants of health.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—November 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC November 10, 2010

This month's column describes some of the efforts around the country to promote increased awareness of racial and other health disparities as well as some of the resources available to reduce them.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—October 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC October 27, 2010

This month's column spotlights Brian Smedley, an editor of the Institute of Medicine's "Unequal Treatment" in 2003 and now the director of the Health Policy Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—September 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC September 22, 2010

This month's column looks at a tool for assisting hospitals in measuring their performance related to providing equitable care to gay and lesbian patients and to creating workplace environments that are supportive to gay and lesbian medical providers, nurses, and staff.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—August 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC August 10, 2010

New articles and resources related to the causes and effects of health care inequities and disparities. Items include a compelling look at how community-based organizations can play effective roles in decreasing racial inequities in care, as well as big-picture strategies to decrease ethnic health disparities.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—July 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC July 28, 2010

AHRQ releases Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit; Latino health inequities are focus of free full-text issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—June 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC June 23, 2010

This column describes recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—May 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC May 20, 2010

This column describes recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—April 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC April 22, 2010

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's listings focus on obesity and HIV care.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—March 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC March 24, 2010

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: New information about the causes, results, and elimination of health disparities.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—February 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC February 11, 2010

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: Recent news about the causes and results of health disparities.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—January 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC January 13, 2010

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: Recent publications in the study of health disparities.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—November 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC November 25, 2009

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: Measuring the impact of unequal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender patients.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—October 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC October 23, 2009

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: The theory and measurement of clinician bias and stereotyping.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—September 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC September 25, 2009

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: Using Healthy People 2010 to guide health disparities efforts

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—August 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC August 28, 2009

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: The myth of race and health.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—July 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC July 24, 2009

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: Using "equity reports" to measure and reduce health disparities.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—June 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC June 19, 2009

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's subject: Why do clinicians stereotype patients?

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—May 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC May 15, 2009

This column examines recent literature on health disparities, emphasizing tools that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices. This month's column focuses on disparities in the treatment of pain.

Eliminating health disparities: What works?—April 2009

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC April 15, 2009

This column examines recent literature and evidence focusing on health disparities, with emphasis on identifying tools being developed that can help clinicians to assess and address disparities in their own practices.