TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Health Disparities and Community-Based Participatory Research: Issues and Illustrations A1 - Peterson, N. Andrew A1 - Hughey, Joseph A1 - Lowe, John B. A1 - Timmer, Andria D. A1 - Schneider, John E. A1 - Peterson, Jana J. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2017 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - Some health experts argue that we may have entered a third wave of health.1 After combating communicable diseases in the first wave and chronic disease in the second, an era may emerge in which people are living longer with increasingly less disease burden, technological advances are promising to halt the encroachment of disease, and a growing number of people are considering themselves to be in good health.1 At the same time, however, millions of people worldwide are suffering and dying from diseases and disabilities that are easily preventable or curable. Diseases such as polio, measles, and tuberculosis, are rare or nonexistent among populations with access to resources, but far too commonplace for those living in impoverished or disadvantaged conditions. In developing countries, one million children die each year from measles, infant mortality rates are seven times higher than in industrialized countries, and the AIDS virus threatens to undo any gains made in childhood survival rates.2 Such statistics are not isolated to developing nations. In more developed regions of the world, such as North America and Europe, many people still receive substandard care or suffer from significantly higher rates of disease and lower levels of favorable health outcomes than others. Although by no means universally agreed upon, the concept of health disparities refers to differences in one or more health-related variables associated with membership in some population group or subgroup. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141963818 ER -