RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141963818
T1 Health Disparities and Community-Based Participatory Research: Issues and Illustrations
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141963818
RD 2024/04/18
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.