Email this pageHealth Care Disparities
Dr. Byung-Kwang Yoo is conducting a considerable amount of research that focuses on health care disparities. These are excellent potential settings for pre- and postdoctoral training. They include studies of
- How disparities are being addressed (health care programs, reports, and initiatives) [Dr. Yoo’s K25 Award (“Effects of Individual Behavioral Responses on Benefits of Influenza Vaccination” sponsored by NIAID) plans to further explore disparities in the timeliness of influenza vaccination among the elderly];
- How to conduct research to reduce and eliminate disparities (current CDC funded research [“Universal Childhood Influenza Vaccination: Providers’ Perspective”, Dr. Peter Szilagyi (PI)] is collecting primary data from clinics/practices to empirically estimate the costs for providers of delivering child vaccination in low SES geographic (inner city) areas and to explore the appropriate payment rates for providers to encourage child flu vaccination in these areas); and
- Approaches to reduce racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities (past work, “Determinants of Influenza Vaccination Timing,” sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, found that shorter travel time to a clinic was a positive predictor particularly among low SES groups).
Current work on his K25 Award (“Effects of Individual Behavioral Responses on Benefits of Influenza Vaccination”) plans to explore reducing travel time as a potential approach to decreasing disparities in flu vaccination rates). Dr. Veazie’s NIH study that is developing a Web-based laboratory to study the decision to use antidepressants for the elderly offers a good setting for training on how to conduct research to reduce and eliminate disparities.
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