Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary
Jennifer A. Cohen, Rapporteur, Roundtable on Health Disparities
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH)
US Institute of Medicine (IOM) [210p.] 2008
Available online at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12154
“….In early 2007, the Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Disparities to increase the visibility of racial and ethnic health disparities as a national problem, to further the development of programs and strategies to reduce disparities, to foster the emergence of leadership on this issue, and to track promising activities and developments in health care that could lead to dramatically reducing or eliminating disparities. [posted on WHO/PAHO Equity list]