HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

November 24, 2008

links for 2008-11-24

• Money Motivates Doctors To Reduce Ethnic Differences In Heart Disease Treatments, UK Study Finds
  Financial incentives for doctors can improve the management of coronary heart disease and reduce ethnic differences in quality of and access to care, according to public health experts in the UK.
• Harvard Med Students Might Want to Look Up Charles Grassley
  ...students have been trying for six years to get the administration to tighten its conflicts policies, both in the classroom and at the affiliated hospitals where the students train. One idea they’re pushing is to require faculty and students, while talking about drugs in the classroom, to disclose any ties to the makers of those drugs.
• Children Who Live in Public Housing Suffer in School, Study Says
  ...fifth graders living in public housing did worse on standardized math and reading tests than fifth graders who lived elsewhere. Researchers found this disparity in fifth-grade test scores even when comparing students at the same school who shared similar demographics, like race, gender and poverty status.
• Lawsuit claims teen with HIV was bullied
  In one instance, the lawsuit said, the middle schooler's soccer coach asked the girl whether she had AIDS, then told her the team could use her HIV status to its advantage because "the other team will be afraid."