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Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities
Racial and ethnic health disparities inarguably exist in the United States. It is important to educate primary care clinicians regarding this topic because they have the ability to have an impact in the reduction of health disparities. This article presents the evidence that disparities exist, how c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17371577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-4732-1-5 |
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description | Racial and ethnic health disparities inarguably exist in the United States. It is important to educate primary care clinicians regarding this topic because they have the ability to have an impact in the reduction of health disparities. This article presents the evidence that disparities exist, how clinicians contribute to these disparities, and what primary care clinicians can do to reduce disparities in their practice. Clinicians are able to impact health disparities by receiving and providing cross-cultural education, communicating effectively with patients, and practicing evidence-based medicine. The changes suggested herein will have an impact on the current state of health of our nation. |
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spelling | pubmed-18084702007-03-03 Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities Cardarelli, Roberto Chiapa, Ana L Osteopath Med Prim Care Commentary Racial and ethnic health disparities inarguably exist in the United States. It is important to educate primary care clinicians regarding this topic because they have the ability to have an impact in the reduction of health disparities. This article presents the evidence that disparities exist, how clinicians contribute to these disparities, and what primary care clinicians can do to reduce disparities in their practice. Clinicians are able to impact health disparities by receiving and providing cross-cultural education, communicating effectively with patients, and practicing evidence-based medicine. The changes suggested herein will have an impact on the current state of health of our nation. BioMed Central 2007-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC1808470/ /pubmed/17371577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-4732-1-5 Text en Copyright © 2007 Cardarelli and Chiapa; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Cardarelli, Roberto Chiapa, Ana L Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities |
title | Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities |
title_full | Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities |
title_fullStr | Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities |
title_full_unstemmed | Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities |
title_short | Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities |
title_sort | educating primary care clinicians about health disparities |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17371577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-4732-1-5 |
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