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Health & Wealth Blog
4:38 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Three interviews on health disparities

Credit Jacob Fenston / KBIA
Thomas LaVeist, professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University.

At the health equity conference in Columbia last week, between the steady stream of PowerPoints and pie charts, I had the chance to talk with some smart folks who spend their time thinking about health disparities and how to end them:

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Health & Wealth Update
7:56 am
Wed November 23, 2011

Rural women diagnosed later

Credit Faustine Williams

Women in rural Missouri are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a late stage than women in urban or suburban counties. In this weekly Health & Wealth update, the urban / rural disparity in breast cancer detection. 

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