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Record Nr.

UNINA9910717345503321

Autore

Quiñones Ana R.

Titolo

Interventions to improve minority health care and reduce racial and ethnic disparities / / Ana R. Quiñones [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research & Development Service, , 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 60 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Evidence-based Synthesis Program

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Medical policy

Minorities - Medical care

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Evidence-based synthesis program."

"September 2011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Racial and ethnic disparities are widespread in the US health care system. A 2007 report from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Services Research & Development Service (HSR & D) Evidence-based Synthesis Program (ESP) found disparities were prevalent in a variety of clinical arenas within the Veterans Affairs health care system. The report identified several promising avenues for future interventions designed to reduce racial and ethnic disparities. The objectives of this review are to describe the state of disparities intervention research within the VA, glean lessons from systematic reviews of intervention research not limited to VA settings, and develop an organizing framework to describe studies in this field of research. This report is also intended to inform future disparities intervention research in the VA, as well as VA policies and programs to reduce disparities.