Disparities in Cardiac Care: Rising to the Challenge of Healthy People 2010

Disparities in cardiac care: rising to the challenge of Healthy People 2010.

Eliminating health disparities is one of two overarching goals of Healthy People 2010. Although the causes of health disparities are complex, they appear to be related, in part, to disparities in the quality of medical care. Two recent reviews of peer-reviewed research investigated the evidence on racial/ethnic differences in medical care. An Institute of Medicine summary of the literature conc...

Rising to the challenge.

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Healthy people 2010: diabetes.

853 B eginning in 1979, the then Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued a document titled " Healthy People: The Surgeon General' s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention " (1). With the release in 1990 of Healthy People (HP) 2000, the process of establishing health directions for the nation, as well as the increased variety of topics addressed, both signified expanded co...

Healthy People 2010 Initiative

Healthy people 2010, is an all inclusive countrywide promotion for health and prevention of diseases. The initiative formed a road map on whose basis the health of all American people was supposed to be improved in the first ten years of the 21st century. The initiatives predecessor was the Healthy people 2000 initiative that was supposed to improve the overall health of the nation during the e...