Research Catalog

Title

Examining the health disparities research plan of the National Institutes of Health : unfinished business / Committee on the Review and Assessment of the NIH's Strategic Research Plan And Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Gerald E. Thomson, Faith Mitchell, Monique Williams, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Thomson, Gerald E.
• Mitchell, Faith, 1952-
• Williams, Monique.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Review and Assessment of the NIH's Strategic Research Plan And Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities.

Description

xv, 304 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
• Health services accessibility > United States
• Social medicine > United States
• Medical policy > United States
• Medical care > United States > Evaluation
• Health Services Research
• Cultural Diversity
• Health Services Accessibility
• Program Development
• Research Design
• Socioeconomic Factors
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also online

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Health disparities : concepts, measurements, and understanding -- 3. Development and availability of the strategic plan -- 4. Budget and finances -- 5. The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities -- 6. Management of the strategic plan and the health disparities research program -- App. A. Public law 106-525 - November 22, 2000; "Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act of 2000" -- App. B. Agendas of open meetings -- App. C. List of participants providing testimony or written commentary to the committee -- App. D. Overview of health disparities, Nancy Adler -- App. E. Schematic diagram showing differences, disparities, and discrimination in health care -- App. F. National institutes of health NIH health strategic plan fiscal years 2004-2008, volume I [draft] -- App. G. Public communications and its role in reducing and eliminating health disparities, Kasisomayajula Viswanath -- App. H. NIH committee on minority health and health disparities research definitions and application methodology : final report (revised January 2004) -- App. I. Acronyms -- App. J. Centers of excellence funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2005 -- App. K. NCMHD endowment program awardees -- App. L. Summary of recommendations -- App. M. Committee and staff biographies.

ISBN

• 0309101212 (hardback)
• 030965775X (PDFs)

LCCN

2006011067

OCLC

• ocm65617478
• SCSB-5264831

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries