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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Health Disparities


Pediatric Meeting Opens with Focus on Health Disparities

NEW ORLEANS -- The American Academy of Pediatrics is kicking off its annual meeting with a half day devoted to health disparities in the nation's youngest patients.
Those who attend the session will hear about ways to improve cultural sensitivity, how to better work with community agencies to meet the various needs of children, and how to face some of the social problems affecting children, including hunger, homelessness, and poverty, according to Robert Cicco, MD, a neonatologist at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh and program chair for the meeting..../

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