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The Inaugural SOPHE Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, PhD, MPH

Senior Guest Editor, SOPHE president 2004-2005, is a professor of biobehavioral health at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.


  Abstract

As we break the 20-year mark for the release of the 1985 Secretary's Task Force Report on Black and Minority Health by the Department of Health and Human Services, the disparity gap measured by excess death has widened. Although we continue to recognize the importance of setting disparity goals based on excess death reduction, we believe there is a greater need to focus on the social contexts that create vulnerability to disease from which minorities die in disproportionate numbers. This theme issue focuses on articles written mostly by scholars who were invited to participate at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) inaugural summit to develop a transdisciplinary research agenda on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.

Key Words: health disparities, social contexts, transdisciplinary, research agenda

First published on June 7, 2006, doi:10.1177/1524839906289382

Health Promotion Practice 2006;7:293.

A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2006

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