Addressing health disparities: Brown University School of Public Health.

Need for addressing oral health disparities in rural Appalachia

1Center for Animal and Human Health in Appalachia, College of Veterinary Medicine, DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, and School of Mathematics and Sciences, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, USA 2Department of Health and Exercise Science, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA 3Behavioral & Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Jackson...

Teaching and addressing health disparities through the family medicine social and community context of care project.

By training future physicians to care for patients with backgrounds different from their own, medical schools can help reduce health disparities. To address the need for education in this area, the leaders of the Family Medicine Clerkship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University developed the Social and Community Context of Care project, required of all medical students rotating ...

Cutaneous necrosis following brown recluse spider bite

A Response to the Commentary Entitled: “Addressing the Shortage of Health Professionals in Rural China: Issues and Progress”

Socioeconomic Disparities and Self-reported Substance Abuse-related Problems

Background: It is not well understood whether the self-reported experience of substance abuse-related problems differs by socioeconomic status.Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis using the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on participants who reported ever using illicit drugs or used illicit drugs in the past year.Findings: Among those reporting ever using illicit drugs...