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1 Introduction
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... The second, held in Atlanta, Georgia, looked at issues of disparities across the life span, with a particular emphasis on young children. The third, held in Newport Beach, California, drew on the potential linkages between health literacy, health disparities, and quality improvement efforts.
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... SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP On May 11, 2009, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities sponsored a public workshop to discuss the role of state and local policy initiatives in reducing health disparities. With the advent of health care reform at the federal level, it is all the more important that ways of reducing existing disparities and promoting health equity at the state and local levels be examined.
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... Gordon Sprenger, former chief executive officer of Allina Health Systems, gave the history of the development of the Allina Backyard Project, an ambitious neighborhood-based program designed to create jobs and incorporate other structural changes into a plan to reduce health disparities. The final speaker of that morning, Sanne Magnan, who is the Commissioner of Health in Minnesota, presented data on health disparities at the state level and described plans being undertaken statewide to improve health equity.
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... Joel Weissman's observations about the effects of health care reform at the state level follow. Finally, Chapter 5 describes the comments and observations of the reactor panel and the concluding comments of the Roundtable chair, Nicole Lurie.


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