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April 2004, Vol 94, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 519-520
© 2004 American Public Health Association

LETTER

ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES: FOCAL POINTS FOR ADVOCACY AND INTERVENTION

Patricia D. Mail, MPH, PhD, CHES, Sue Lachenmayr, MPH, CHES, M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES and Kathleen Roe, DrPH

The authors are members of SOPHE (http://www.sophe.org). Patricia D. Mail, a member of the APHA Executive Committee, is with the Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle. Sue Lachenmayr is with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton. M. Elaine Auld is a member of APHA’s Action Board. Kathleen Roe is with the Department of Health Science, San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sue Lachenmayr, MPH, CHES, Society for Public Health Education, 750 First St, NE, Suite 910, Washington, DC 20002 (e-mail: bslach@earthlink.net).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We applaud the Journal’s October 2003 focus on eliminating health disparities and the University of Pittsburgh’s National Minority Health Research Summit. Efforts to reduce inequalities need to be derived from multiple sources. Two recent publications about the challenges of achieving equality for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Latino peoples show the failings of our past approaches.1,2

The National Institutes of Health’s National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities is paving the way for a more aggressive research agenda in this area.3 Public health professionals need to educate policymakers about the need for support for such research, as well as . . . [Full Text]




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