Addressing Health Disparities: A Conversation With Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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dc.contributor.authorLaVeist, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorThe Innovations , Exchange Team
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:03:39Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:03:39Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe Innovations Team: The U.S. will soon be a country with a “Majority-Minority” population. What demographic shifts are driving this change? Thomas LaVeist: There is a combination of things behind the demographic shift. There is a rapidly declining white birth rate and higher minority birth rates. In general, minorities have first births at a younger age than whites, meaning they utilize a longer portion of their reproductive years. And, of course, there is immigration—mainly from Latin America and Asia. Looking at the demographic pyramid of the United States, a larger percentage of whites are in their nonreproductive years…
dc.description.urihttps://www.innovations.ahrq.gov:443/content.aspx?id=3219
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/duv1-nb3f
dc.identifier.citationLaVeist, Thomas and The Innovations , Exchange Team (2011) Addressing Health Disparities: A Conversation With Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. UNSPECIFIED.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 2874
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23513
dc.subjectAccess To Healthcare
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectinterventions
dc.titleAddressing Health Disparities: A Conversation With Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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