Demographic Changes, a View from California Implications for Framing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary (2010) / Chapter Skim
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The second, held in Atlanta, Georgia, looked at disparities in health outcomes across the life span, with a particular emphasis on young children. SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP On July 28, 2008, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities sponsored a public workshop to discuss the role of framing health disparities in diverse communities in reducing health disparities.
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The workshop, titled America in Transition, a View from California: Implications for Addressing Health Disparities, was organized to advance the dialogue about health disparities by facilitating a discussion of the topic among stakeholders in the community, including residents, academia, health care, business, policy makers, and philanthropy. The goal of the meeting was to discuss how the framing of health disparities in diverse communities influences the public debate about improving health outcomes.
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Race interacts with the process of residential R segregation and thus cannot be ignored when health outcomes are being evaluated. • ack of access to health care.
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Three panels, one for each community, describe how these demographic changes have influenced health outcomes and how framing can lead racial and ethnic subgroups to work together to reduce health disparities. After the presentation of the comments of the three panels, Tony Iton offers his reactions and observations.
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