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- Title
Needed: An Urgent Response to Health Disparities in East Texas.
- Authors
Wei-Chen Lee; Yoes, Cissy A.; Raimer, Ben G.
- Abstract
The article discusses inequity of the East Texas population's access to preventive, diagnostic, surgical and emergency services. It also discusses the need to identify priority issues and propose appropriate structural responses that would support and sustain healthy lives in East Texas. Topics discused include poor rankings of East Texas in social vulnerability and inequity, and implementation of education and prevention programs for innovative use of existing resources.
- Subjects
EAST Texas; EMERGENCY medical services; HEALTH equity; EQUALITY; HEALTH education
- Publication
Texas Public Health Journal, 2016, Vol 68, Issue 4, p15
- ISSN
2574-5859
- Publication type
Article