Article Excerpt: Health disparities research is crucial to achieving optimal health for all communities and should continue to focus on the two fundamental factors that influence health: race and ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). This is according to a new Viewpoint by Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D., NIMHD deputy director. They stress that these pillars of health disparities science are fundamental to addressing the root causes of health disparities and implementing data-driven interventions to promote health equity. Their Viewpoint appeared today in the JAMA Health Forum.
Full Article: http://tinyurl.com/yc3w5683
Article Source: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
