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Unequal Treatment: A Case Study

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In its 2002 report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, IOM recognized that CHWs "offer promise as a community-based resource to increase racial and ethnic minorities' access to health care and to serve as a liaison between healthcare providers and the communities they serve." The report also asserts that CHWs are effective as, "a strategy for improving care delivery, implementing secondary prevention strategies, and enhancing risk reduction" and recommends integrating trained CHWs into multidisciplinary health care teams. In its 2010 report, A Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to Prevent and Control Hypertension, the IOM recommends the CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

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