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Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Cancer Incidence and Mortality in California by Detailed Race/ethnicity
Author: Cancer in California 1988/94
Author: Cancer Incidence and Mortality in California by Detailed Race/ethnicity, 1988-1992
Author: The Unequal Burden of Cancer
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309071542
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
We know more about cancer prevention, detection, and treatment than ever beforeâ€"yet not all segments of the U.S. population have benefited to the fullest extent possible from these advances. Some ethnic minorities experience more cancer than the majority population, and poor peopleâ€"no matter what their ethnicityâ€"often lack access to adequate cancer care. This book provides an authoritative view of cancer as it is experienced by ethnic minorities and the medically underserved. It offers conclusions and recommendations in these areas: Defining and understanding special populations, and improving the collection of cancer-related data. Setting appropriate priorities for and increasing the effectiveness of specific National Institutes of Health (NIH) research programs, to ensure that special populations are represented in clinical trials. Disseminating research results to health professionals serving these populations, with sensitivity to the issues of cancer survivorship. The book provides background data on the nation's struggle against cancer, activities and expenditures of the NIH, and other relevant topics.
Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?
Author: Robert G. EvansPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112421620
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Cancer in California 1988/93
Author: California Cancer Registry Publications
Author: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Author: Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago. Although survival has improved for all racial and ethnic groups, strong differences persist, both in life expectancy and in the causes of disability and death at older ages. This book examines trends in mortality rates and selected causes of disability (cardiovascular disease, dementia) for older people of different racial and ethnic groups. The determinants of these trends and differences are also investigated, including differences in access to health care and experiences in early life, diet, health behaviors, genetic background, social class, wealth and income. Groups often neglected in analyses of national data, such as the elderly Hispanic and Asian Americans of different origin and immigrant generations, are compared. The volume provides understanding of research bearing on the health status and survival of the fastest-growing segment of the American population.
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