DSC in the News
Press Releases
Publications
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2011
An Action Plan to Improve Equity, Quality - Hospitals & Health Networks Daily
Clancy: Slow Progress on Disparities 'Is Not Acceptable' - Hospitals & Health Networks Daily
How Can Physicians Close the Disparity Gap? - HealthLeaders Media
Using medical technology wisely: Speaker says challenge now is to spread benfits nationally - Harvard Gazette
Allina's Wheeler, Johnson selected for Disparities Leadership Program : May 13 2011 - Minnesota Hospital Association
Disparities in Minorities' Health Care is Focus of Seminar - Hartford Courant
Lost in Translation: Interpreters Can Tackle Health Disparities - NationalJournal
Fighting Disparities, Improving Care for Everyone (Video) - Hospitals & Health Networks Daily
Racial Divide Apparent in Continuing Health Care Debate - The Old Gold and Black/Wake Forest University's Newspaper
2010
Critical Care: Women and minorities have been overlooked by the Health system, but what can we do? - DiversityBoston/Boston.com
Respecting Muslim Patients' Needs - New York Times
Study Reveals Heart Attack Treatment Disparities Begin in the Emergency Room - Medill Reports
Not all Chest Pain Treated Equally in U.S. Hospitals: Study - HealthDay News
AEM: Race, ethnicity may play role in ER decisions - Cardiovascular Business
Having Chest Pain While Black: MGH Finds Triage Bias - CommonHealth/WBUR Online
Health Disparities Center in Boston Toasts 5th Anniversary - New England Ethnic News
MGH Program Helps Close Gap in Health Disparities - Bay State Banner
Celebran aniversario del Centro para Solucionar Disparidades médicas de MGH - El Planeta
2009
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino appointed Dr. Joseph Betancourt, The Director of the Disparities Solutions Center, to the Boston Public Health Commission's Board of Health. Please see the press release for more information.
Mandating Cultural Competency: Should Physicians be Required to Take Courses - American Medical News
Collaboration is Key to Beating Diabetes - Bay State Banner
Local Initiatives Educate Latinos about Diabetes - Bay State Banner
Research Shows Key Role for Unconscious Bias - Boston Globe
For Latinos, Diabetes an Emerging Health Threat - Bay State Banner
Guide Seeks to Help Hospital Leaders Address Health Care Disparities, Improve Quality, Equity - Kaiser Family Foundation
Massachusetts Hospital Unveils Guide for Reducing Care Disparities - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
New Hospital Guide Pushes Plan to Address Disparities -
Bay State Banner
2008
MGH Leads Other Hospitals in Efforts to End Health Care Disparities with Launch of new Guide - TuBoston
Health Disparities - My America 2008
Cultural Competency and Patient-Centered Care - Physicians News Digest
Funding Sought for State Health Equity Office - The Daily News Tribune
The MGH receives Corporate Leadership Award - MGH Hotline
In General - DSC Awarded Community Leader Award from Health Care for All - MGH Hotline
DSC's Racial and Ethnic Disparities Series Report - MGH Hotline
When Cultures Collide with Medical Care - Boston Globe
Presbyterian Healthcare Services recognized for addressing disparities - New Mexico Business Weekly
Bitter Pill: Prescription Discrimination - Boston Herald
Week of events at the MGH focuses on disparities - MGH Hotline
2007
More French medical services needed: professor - CBC News
State working to narrow ethnic health gap - Boston Now, courtesy of The Associated Press
The Color of Health Care: Diagnosing Bias in Doctors - The Washington Post
Doctor's treatment decisions influenced by race bias - The Harvard Crimson
Study Points to Emergency Room Bias Against Blacks - National Public Radio
Race in Medical Care: Skin Color Matters with Patient Care - ABC News/Good Morning America
Racial Bias in Emergency Rooms - WBUR Radio
Tests of ER trainees find signs of race bias in care - Boston Globe
Bloc party - Boston Globe
Sharing disparities solutions and tools for change - MGH Hotline
The MGH makes $18.6 million commitment to community health - MGH Hotline
New bill addresses unequal access to healthcare - MGH Hotline
Medicare Should Take Leading Role in Reducing Health Disparities, Expert Panel Says - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at www.rwjf.org
Baylor tapped for equal treatment study - Dallas Business Journal
What's Happening: Documentary or Islam and modern medicine - MGH Hotline
Service Matters: Shaping the experience of care - MGH Hotline
Partners and the MGH celebrate Rev. Dr. Marting Luther King, Jr. - MGH Hotline
25 Overall Most-read Health Affairs Papers in 2006 - Health Affairs at www.HealthAffairs.org
2006
Depression engulfs area's Puerto Ricans: Researchers cite poverty, isolation - Boston Globe
New racial and ethnic disparities dashboard - MGH Hotline
Racial divide found across health plans - Boston Globe
MGH joins Be Healthy Collaboration - MGH Hotline
Be Healthy: New section aims to end racial and ethnic health disparities - The Boston-Bay State Banner
Hospitals to Ask More than Usual Patient Data - Boston Globe
Disparities Solutions Center Highlights Progress at Open House - MGH Hotline
Medical Care Lacking But Equal: Blacks, Hispanics Fare Slightly Better Than Whites, Study Finds - Washington Post
2005
A Year of Sweet Victories - The Nation
The Disparities Solutions Center en el Massachusetts General Hospital Atacando la diabetes - El Planeta
Sweet Victory: Bridging the Health Care Gap - The Nation
Patient Partners - Boston Globe
Boston takes aim at racial disparities in healthcare - The Christian Science Monitor
Boston Initiative - Medical News Today
Health Care and Race - National Public Radio
Closing the Health Care Gap - WBUR Radio
Center targets racial gap in health care - Boston Herald
MGH seeks to bridge healthcare's racial gap: Center envisions end to disparities - Boston Globe
Disparities Solutions Center launched at the MGH - MGH Hotline
12 health care organizations selected for national leadership program to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care
17 health care organizations selected for national leadership program to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care
2007
13 health care organizations selected for national leadership program to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care
2005
MGH creates national, hospital-based center to end racial and ethnic disparities in health care
2011
Readmission rates for hispanic medicare beneficiaries with heart failure and acute myocardial infarction
Evaluation of medical student self-rated preparedness to care for limited english proficiency patients
Using standardized encounters to understand reported racial/ethnic disparities in patient experiences with care
2010
Racial and sex differences in emergency department triage assessment and test ordering for chest pain, 1997-2006
Leveraging Quality Improvement to Achieve Equity in Health Care
Massachusetts health disparities: key lessons for the nation
How do black-serving hospitals perform on patient safety indicators? Implications for national public reporting and pay-for-performance
Using standardized encounters to understand reported racial/ethnic disparities in patient experiences with care.
Compétences cliniques transculturelles et pratique médicale: Quels besoins, quels outils, quel impact?
Commentary: linking cultural competence training to improved health outcomes: perspectives from the field
2009
Cross-cultural medical education in the United States: key principles and experiences
The relationship between drivers and policy in the implementation of cultural competency training in health care
Measuring residents' perceived preparedness and skillfulness to deliver cross-cultural care
A Patient-Tailored Navigator Program for Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Community Health Center: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2008
Overcoming Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Blood Pressure Control - A Patient-Centered Approach to Cross-Cultural Communication
Providing culturally competent care: residents in HRSA Title VII funded residency programs feel better prepared
A Plan for Action: Key Perspectives from the Racial/Ethnic Disparities Strategy Forum
Barriers to screening colonoscopy in Latino and white non-Latino patients in an urban community health center
Access to Care and Use of Preventive Services by Hispanics: State-Based Variations From 1991 to 2004
Personal characteristics associated with resident physicians’ self-perceptions of preparedness to deliver cross-cultural care
Cross-Cultural Medical Education: Can Patient-Centered Cultural Competency Training Be Effective in non-Western Countries?
Can Cultural Competency Self-Assessments Predict OSCE Performance?
Seizure visits in US emergency departments: epidemiology and potential disparities in care
Impact of Activated Vitamin D and Race on Survival among Hemodialysis Patients
2007
Resident Physicians' Preparedness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care: Implications for Clinical Care and Medical Education Policy
Personal responsibility versus responsible options: Health care, community health promotion, and the battle against chronic disease
Black physicians' experience with race: should we be surprised?
Cultural competence in the prevention of sexually transmitted disease
Implicit bias among physicians and its prediction of thrombolysis decisions for Black and white patients
Designing and implementing a cultural competence OSCE: Lessons learned from interviews with medical students
Primary care resident perceived preparedness to deliver cross-cultural care: An examination of training and specialty differences
Student reflections on learning cross-cultural skills through a 'cultural competence' OSCE
Recommendations for teaching about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care
2006
Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: The Role of Cultural Competence in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Cultural competence and medical education: many names, many perspectives, one goal
Cultural competency: Providing quality care to diverse populations
Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care: what is the role of academic medicine?
Resident physicians' use of professional and nonprofessional interpreters: a national survey
Internal medicine residents' perceptions of cross-cultural training. Barriers, needs, and educational recommendations
2005
Cultural competence and health care disparities: key perspectives and trends
The Institute of Medicine Report: “Unequal Treatment”: Lessons for clinical practice
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care: no one suspect, no one solution
Interpretation, language concordance, and quality healthcare: Experiences of Asian Americans with limited English proficiency
Mixed Messages: Residents' Experiences Learning Cross-Cultural Care
Resident Physicians' Prepardeness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care
2004
Not me! Doctors, decisions, and disparities in health care
Barriers to health promotion and disease prevention in the Latino population
The Institute of Medicine Report “Unequal Treatment”: implications for academic health centers
Cultural competence-marginal or mainstream movement?
Evaluation of an educational intervention for medical students to promote competency in social and community determinants of health
2003
Defining cultural competence: A practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care
The Institute of Medicine Report “Unequal Treatment”: The Institute of Medicine Report and its public health implications
Cross-cultural medical education: Conceptual approaches and frameworks for evaluation
Health care disparities in emergency medicine
The Human Face of Health Disparities
2002
Differences between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in use of hospital procedures for cerebrovascular disease
Integrating social factors into cross-cultural medical education
Why the disease-based model of medicine fails our patients
2001
Language barriers to informed consent and confidentiality: the impact on women’s health
The challenges of cross-cultural health care: perspectives on diversity, ethics, and the medical encounter
Diversity in healthcare: expanding our perspectives
1999
Hypertension in multicultural and minority populations: linking communication to compliance
Cross-cultural primary care: a patient-based approach
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