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Epilogue

Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis

ISBN: 978-1-78190-102-1, eISBN: 978-1-78190-103-8

Publication date: 24 July 2012

Abstract

Will our society continue to tolerate differential health outcomes based on race, class, gender, and income? Does the political will exist to change the current patterns of disproportionate health status, disease, and mortality? Will our government decide that there is a basic right to health and then make the investment to turn this promise into a reality? If not now, then when? Those committed to addressing these inequities, such as the contributors to this volume, must ask these questions, publish the research that documents health disparities, and create and disseminate interventions that will improve the health and thereby the quality of life for us all. For it is indeed the case that the health status of the most vulnerable members of our communities serve as a canary in the mines for our entire society.

Citation

Notaro, S.R. (2012), "Epilogue", Notaro, S.R. (Ed.) Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. 299. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-358X(2012)0000009018

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