Approaches to eliminating sociocultural disparities in health. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The recent flurry of studies documenting the presence of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health have outpaced articles that describe effective strategies to eliminate disparities. Through literature review and informal interviews with research, policy, and program experts, we developed a framework of programs that address disparities through targeting clinicians, patients and communities, and health systems. We found that the lack of technical expertise, resources, and sensitive tools are all common barriers to evaluating programs. To stimulate more effective programs and rigorous evaluations, we describe specialized implementation and evaluation techniques programs can use, and make recommendations for future efforts.

publication date

  • January 1, 2000

Research

keywords

  • Cultural Diversity
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Planning
  • Social Class
  • Social Justice

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4194638

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0033710802

PubMed ID

  • 11481745

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 21

issue

  • 4