Section outline

  • Lecture:  Health care disparities

    Influential papers establishing health care disparities as a factor contributing to health disparities, as well as studies using novel methodologies to investigate and address health care disparities, including standardized patients and between and within hospital comparisons.

    Faculty:  Christine Dehlendorf

    Location:      MIssion Hall, Conference Room 2700

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Cooper File
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    • AJPH.2015.302903 File
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    • Li Y.JAMA.2011.Lect.2pdf File
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    • neff File
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    • Optional Reading:

    • Dehlendorf File
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    • dovidio File
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    • Resources:

                 WebEx Login information

                 https://webmeeting.ucsf.edu

                 Meeting Number: 991 016 883

                 Audio Connection: +1 415-514-1000 (Toll)

    • Assignment: Below are discussion questions we will consider in class, that you should be thinking about as you do the reading. If you will not attend class, please submit written responses to each question of approximately one half to one page per question (email to christine.dehlendorf@ucsf.edu).

      1. What novel methods have been applied to the study of health care disparities?
      2. What other ideas do you have for innovative ways to study health care disparities?
      3. What interventions do you think would be most effective to decrease health care disparities?