At her recent keynote talk marking National Minority Health Month, Braveman discussed the range of values informing the field of health disparities, a term coined in the 1990s. A student for more than 25 years of the social determinants of health, she called for a fresh consideration of what constitutes a health disparity, based on international human rights principles that have been endorsed (but not necessarily fulfilled) by nearly all nations. Disparities, she argued, are health differences that are unfair in a particular way. nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2014/06_06_2014/story1.htm
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:25:20 +0000
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