Task Sharing Chronic Disease Self-Management Training With Lay Health Coaches to Reduce Health Disparities

Designing a community-based lay health advisor training curriculum to address cancer health disparities.

INTRODUCTION Racial and ethnic minorities have disproportionately higher cancer incidence and mortality than their White counterparts. In response to this inequity in cancer prevention and care, community-based lay health advisors (LHAs) may be suited to deliver effective, culturally relevant, quality cancer education, prevention/screening, and early detection services for underserved populatio...

Preparing teacher-scholars to reduce health disparities.

Health disparities are a major public health problem in the United States. Doctorally prepared nurse scholars, who understand factors contributing to these disparities, possess research competence to study these factors, and pose strategies to be tested are essential to improve the health of these vulnerable populations. This article describes how a PhD curriculum was designed to prepare teache...

Interventions to Reduce Tobacco-Related Health Disparities

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 887 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provide...

Addressing Health Disparities in Chronic Kidney Disease

According to the official health statistics, Taiwan has the highest prevalence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) in the world. Each year, around 60,000 ESRD patients in Taiwan consume 6% of the national insurance budget for dialysis treatment. The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been climbing during 2008-2012. However, the spatial disparities and clustering of CKD at the public h...

Using Health Information Technology to Reduce Health Care Disparities