To Reduce Urban Disparities in Health, Strengthen and Enforce Equitably Environmental and Consumer Laws

Preparing teacher-scholars to reduce health disparities.

Health disparities are a major public health problem in the United States. Doctorally prepared nurse scholars, who understand factors contributing to these disparities, possess research competence to study these factors, and pose strategies to be tested are essential to improve the health of these vulnerable populations. This article describes how a PhD curriculum was designed to prepare teache...

Interventions to Reduce Tobacco-Related Health Disparities

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 887 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provide...

A transdisciplinary approach to improve health literacy and reduce disparities.

A challenge to public health professionals, health care providers, and consumers is to come together to improve the quality of health care and to eliminate disparities. Improving health literacy skills along with a transdisciplinary approach to care contributes to effective patient-provider communication. This article addresses a team approach to health care, a community health center experienc...

Using Health Information Technology to Reduce Health Care Disparities

The Creation of Social Value: Can an Online Health Community Reduce Rural-Urban Health Disparities?

The striking growth of online communities in recent years has sparked significant interest in understanding and quantifying benefits of participation. While research has begun to document the economic outcomes associated with online communities, quantifying the social value created in these collectives has been largely overlooked. This study proposes that online health communities create social...