Health disparities has been a pressing problem in america. These disparities may be observed from various perspectives and at various levels. For example, prevalence of certain diseases or health issues have been higher in some communities or ethnicities than others. Similarly, for some communities, mortality due to the disease may be higher. There are many other angles looking from which , various types of disparities may be exposed in health environment. Some of these variable may be variables like trust in medical system, nature of relationship and communication with medical personnels, and degree of access to health infrastructure. However, these are complex environments and required multi pronged approaches to tackle these issues.
Recently, there has been a push on getting more research done on these disparities which is backed by grants from various agencies. School of communication at Ohio University has been involved in health communication related efforts for previous some time and now the school wants to go to the next level and intensify its engagement with identifying and decoding health disparities and finding efficacious solutions.
The school has announced a brown bag meeting on February 11, 2011 at noon at 107, Scripps Hall and both graduate students and faculty members are welcome to attend.
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