Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion That Matter

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Improving diversity, inclusion, and representation in radiology and radiation oncology part 1: why these matter.

The ACR Commission for Women and General Diversity is committed to identifying barriers to a diverse physician workforce in radiology and radiation oncology (RRO), and to offering policy recommendations to overcome these barriers. In Part 1 of a 2-part position article from the commission, diversity as a concept and its dimensions of personality, character, ethnicity, biology, biography, and or...

Diversity and relative arbitrage in equity markets

An equity market is called “diverse” if no single stock is ever allowed to dominate the entire market in terms of relative capitalization. In the context of the standard Itô-process model initiated by Samuelson (1965) we formulate this property (and the allied, successively weaker notions of “weak diversity” and “asymptotic weak diversity”) in precise terms.We show that diversity is possible to...

Diversity and inclusion training in pediatric departments.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The diversifying US population of children necessitates assessing the diversity of the pediatric academic workforce and its level of cultural competency training. Such data are essential for workforce and educational policies. METHODS An 8-question survey was sent to 131 US pediatric chairs to assess plans for diversity, targeted groups, departmental diversity, divers...

Equity, social inclusion and health promotion: major challenges.

Currently, there are several issues that deserve attention in the area of oral health promotion, such as dental caries, oral health programs and oral cancer. These issues were discussed during the 18th Congress of the Brazilian Association for Oral Health Promotion (Associação Brasileira de Odontologia de Promoção de Saúde ABOPREV), held April 11 to 13, 2013 in Bauru, SP. In the ABOPREV symposi...