Adventures (and Misadventures) in Understanding (and Reducing) Disparities in Stroke Mortality

News Friday, November 1st, 2013

STROKEAHA: September 12, 2013

One of the 2 key goals of the Healthy People 2010 statement, the guiding document for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is to “eliminate health disparities among different segments of the population” by the year 2010.1 The US Congress has by law directed National Institutes of Health (NIH) to specifically define health disparities to include the components:

  • Minority health research and related activities.

  • Rural health research and related activities.

  • Research and other activities related to the socioeconomically disadvantaged in the urban setting.2

For brevity, we focus on a review of the magnitude of the disparities in stroke of only the first 2 of these disparities: review progress in reducing these disparities, and assess barriers and opportunities to reduce these disparities. Read more

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