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If you’ve filled out a survey at any point in the last 25 years, chances are you were asked two questions about your race and ethnicity: Whether you are of Hispanic or Latino descent, and then ...
Conducting health equity research relies on complete, accurate information about race and ethnicity. However, data quality issues, including race/ethnicity misclassification and data incompleteness, ...
The previous chapter defined race, ethnicity, and biomedical research and concluded by discussing the complexity of their intersection. Building on those conceptual foundations, this chapter begins ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately ...
WASHINGTON — Biomedical researchers should change the way they use race and ethnicity in their research, says a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report, calling on ...
From accrediting organizations to payers, stakeholders seek often-illusive intel on healthcare's most vulnerable populations. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has announced its new ...
Controllable risk factors that factor into Alzheimer’s or dementia cases play varying roles based on someone’s race and ethnicity, a new study shows. About 23% of people who have Alzheimer’s disease ...
Race and ethnicity, defined (sort of) In US parlance, race refers to a group of people who share physical traits – such as skin color, hair texture or eye shape – based on some common ancestry. That ...