Most autism intervention studies lack data on race, ethnicity

Improving Medicare's data on race and ethnicity.

Medicare's databases provide a rich source of information about the program's 43 million beneficiaries. These data have played an important role in documenting racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health and health care. Because they derive largely from administrative records that have been collected over many years using varying standards, however, they are not fully adequate for m...

Race, Ethnicity and Global Communication Studies

Race, as Downing and Husband (2005) remind us, is a ‘social category’ without a ‘scientific basis’ (p. 2). And yet, for better or worse, race is a fundamental dimension of contemporary life, one of the few master tropes that define identities, elicit solidarities and operate as an instrument of othering. Though ‘more inclusive and less objectifying’ (Spencer, p. 45), ethnicity is a ‘transient c...

Race and Ethnicity

IDDM is one of the most common chronic disorders of childhood (see Chapter 3). Standardized descriptive studies of the epidemiology of IDDM are being conducted around the world, providing much needed information regarding the frequency and potential risk factors for IDDM in developed and developing countries. In many areas, these investigations are being facilitated through the World Health Org...

Race and Ethnicity

T he U.S. government reports on minority business ownership as part of the regular economic census performed every 5 years in years ending in 2 or 7. For the purposes of this census, minority-owned businesses are all those not owned by nonminority (Caucasian) business owners. By this definition, minority-owned businesses make up approximately 15% of all U.S. firms. Between 1992 and 1997, minori...

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