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1 Introduction
Pages 15-20

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From page 15...
... Department of Health, Education, and Welfare report, The Health Status of Minorities and Low-Income Groups (Health Resources Administration, 1979) ; the 1979 Healthy People report (U.S.
From page 16...
... . NIH's vision of newer approaches to health research involves planning for and conducting health disparities research, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary team research efforts and a focus on the predominance of chronic diseases (Zerhouni, 2005a, b)
From page 17...
... The director of the newly established NCMHD was given the responsibility to determine which health disparity populations were to be added to existing groups -- which include minorities, individuals with low socioeconomic status, and those living in rural areas -- to comprise the overall focus group for health disparities research. In addition, the legislation called for the NCMHD director to be responsible for coordinating all minority health research and other health disparity research conducted or supported by NIH.
From page 18...
... The NIH Strategic Research Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities was produced in 2003. CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE In 2004, the 4th year of the NIH Minority Health and Health Disparities Research legislation, NCMHD asked the Institute of Medicine to: · Assess the adequacy of the trans-NIH minority health and health disparities Strategic Plan in achieving the NIH's goals and objectives.
From page 19...
... The Committee conducted a commissioned survey of all 27 ICs, the Office of AIDS Research, and the Office of Research on Women's Health to compile information on the implementation of, experience with, and recommendations for the Strategic Plan. Included were inquiries about research funding distributions, training grants, the recruitment of minority research subjects, the career development of investigators studying minority and health disparity groups,1 public communication activities and products, and perceived barriers to implementation.
From page 20...
... Budget analysis also lends insight into the influence of the resource setting on the Plan's feasibility. In Chapter 5, NCMHD is reviewed as a keystone center and coordinator of the Strategic Plan and the health disparities research effort.


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