Improving racial and ethnic data on health: report of a workshop

Occupational Health Disparities: Improvi

📁 Occupational Health Disparities: Improving the Well-Being of Ethnic and Racial Minority Workers

✍ Dr. Frederick T. L. Leong PhD (editor), Donald E. Eggerth PhD (editor), Chu-Hsia 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 American Psychological Association 🌐 English

<span>Racial and ethnic minority groups in the workforce are prone to higher rates of work-related diseases, injuries, and psychological distress than non-minorities. The severity and types of hazards minorities face are also very different because they may work in more physically demanding, labor-i

Occupational Health Disparities: Improvi

📁 Occupational Health Disparities: Improving the Well-Being of Ethnic and Racial Minority Workers

✍ Dr. Frederick T. L. Leong PhD (editor), Donald E. Eggerth PhD (editor), Chu-Hsia 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 American Psychological Association 🌐 English

<span>Racial and ethnic minority groups in the workforce are prone to higher rates of work-related diseases, injuries, and psychological distress than non-minorities. The severity and types of hazards minorities face are also very different because they may work in more physically demanding, labor-i

Improving Health Research on Small Popul

📁 Improving Health Research on Small Populations: Proceedings of a Workshop

✍ Nancy Kirkendall, Jordyn White 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 National Academies Press 🌐 English

<p>The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducting health research that is representative and informative. Dispersion and accessibility issues can increase logistical costs; populations for which it is difficult to obtain adequate sample size are al

Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Stan

📁 Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement

✍ Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Qu 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 National Academies Press 🌐 English

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for th

Sharing Research Data to Improve Public

📁 Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health in Africa: A Workshop Summary

✍ and Medicine Engineering National Academies of Sciences; Division of Behavioral 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 National Academies Press 🌐 English

Sharing research data on public health issues can promote expanded scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance improvements in public health. Although sharing data is the norm in some research fields, sharing of data in public health is not as firmly established. In March 2015, the National

Improving Data on America's Aging Popula

📁 Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop (Compass Series)

✍ Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 National Academies Press 🌐 English