Filtered By:
Cancer: Childhood Cancer
Education: Education
This page shows you your search results in order of date. This is page number 3.
Order by Relevance | Date
Total 32 results found since Jan 2013.
The Quality Of Health Care You Receive Likely Depends On Your Skin Color
Unequal health care continues to be a serious problem for black Americans. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report showing that minority patients were less likely to receive the same quality health care as white patients, racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the U.S. health care system. That report, which was published in 2002, indicated that even when both groups had similar insurance or the same ability to pay for care, black patients received inferior treatment to white patients. This still hold true, according to our investigation into dozens of studies about black health...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Socio‐Economic Factors Relating to Diabetes and its Management in India
Abstract
Diabetes is an escalating problem in India and has major socio‐economic dimensions. Rapid dietary changes coupled with decreased level of physical activity have resulted in increasing obesity and diabetes in rural and semi‐urban areas and in urban based people living in resettlement colonies. Increasing risk has also been recorded in those who suffered from poor childhood nutrition, and in rural‐to‐urban migrants. Social inequity manifests in disparities in socio‐economic strata (SES), place of residence, education, gender, level of awareness and affect prevention, care and management. All these populati...
Source: Journal of Diabetes - May 28, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Usha Shrivastava, Anoop Misra, Rajeev Gupta, Vijay Viswanathan Tags: Review Article Source Type: research
