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CHAPTER

2

DISPARITIES IN HEALTH

AMONG RACIAL AND

ETHNIC GROUPS

Implications for Health Education

S UZANNE K OTKIN - J ASZI

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this chapter, you will be able to

■ Understand and explain the concept of health disparities.
■ Understand and explain health and health care problems that disproportion-
ately affect the major racial and ethnic groups.
■ Provide an overview of morbidity and mortality patterns that affect each racial
and ethnic group and the epidemiology of health and illness in each group.

■ Describe the implications for health educators of these epidemiological pat-
terns and health care access issues.

■ List specific strategies that health educators can implement in their practices
for overcoming access barriers for each of the groups.

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