Tag: Nancy Krieger

Nation & World
Growing U.S. disparities in health not inevitable

In the public health field, there is an ongoing debate as to whether improvement in the overall health of the population is linked to increases or decreases in social inequities…

February 28, 2008

3 minutes
Nation & World
Health conference looks at the numbers

The topic of health statistics took center stage last week as practitioners from around the world discussed the critical role statistics play in identifying and addressing health disparities during a…

May 12, 2005

1 minute
Nation & World
Accurately measuring socioeconomic differences, health disparities

For more than two years, Nancy Krieger and her colleagues have worked with approximately 1 million records from databases of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments of Public Health as…

January 12, 2001

1 minute