How a City Aims To Give Minorities Better Health Care: Pittsburgh Hopes To Satisfy 2010 Deadline By Using Voices With Street Cred'

dc.contributor.authorMartinez, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:01:09Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:01:09Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractPittsburgh - The Rev. John Welch paused, dabbing at sweat on his receding hairline. Dapper in a double-breasted tan suit, he stood silent for a moment in the pulpit of the Bidwell United Presbyterian Church here, and then resumed speaking on a new topic. "God wants us to take preventive steps for our health," he exhorted. "Only when we are healthy can we help someone else." Raising his left arem heavenward, the minister said, "Lord, we have beennegligent of what you have entrusted us with." Then he told his followers to get their blood pressure checked right after the service, downstairs in the recreation hall, where nurses were waiting. It wasn't Mr. Welch's idea to lace his sermon with health tips. The move is part of a broad experiment led by the University of Pittsburgh that aims to erase the disparities in health care between the city's whites and blacks by the year 2010.
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ckqk-6dal
dc.identifier.citationMartinez, Barbara (2002) How a City Aims To Give Minorities Better Health Care: Pittsburgh Hopes To Satisfy 2010 Deadline By Using Voices With Street Cred'. UNSPECIFIED.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 971
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22930
dc.subjectoutreach
dc.subjectPractice
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectdisparities in health care
dc.subjectBlack men
dc.subjectPittsburgh
dc.subjectclinical trials
dc.subjectreducing disparities
dc.subject2010 deadline
dc.subjectStephen Thomas
dc.subjectCenter for Minority Health
dc.subjectUniversity of Pittsburgh
dc.subjectFaith-based Health Initiative of Greater Pittsburgh
dc.titleHow a City Aims To Give Minorities Better Health Care: Pittsburgh Hopes To Satisfy 2010 Deadline By Using Voices With Street Cred'
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