Thoughts: Education is The Key to Reduce Health Disparities

Thoughts: Education is The Key to Reduce Health Disparities

This is great. Even more, I would like to see teachers can team up to reduce disparities. My Mom’s experience tells me that the key to reduce the poverty is education, education, and still education. My Mom was a teach of elementary school in China. Sixty years ago, she went a remote poor countryside teaching not just kids but also the parents how to read. Now this area is one of the richest counties in China. My Mom is so proud of what she had done. By the way, my 80-year old Mom is still going to a senior college as a student to have fun and meet friends.

Subject: Lawyers, Doctors Team Up To Reduce Health Disparities

California Watch: Lawyers, Doctors Team Up To Reduce Health Disparities
On Kate Marr's first day practicing law at The Children's Clinic in Long Beach last week, she met with the mother of an asthmatic 7-year-old. ... The Long Beach program is the latest effort by community clinics and hospitals across the country to add lawyers to their medical teams as a way to resolve issues associated with the "social determinants of health," such as housing, domestic violence and poverty (Yeung, 11/10).