All Articles tagged Atrium Health

• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  January 09, 2024 EDT
  Mitigating Cancer Disparities Through an Innovative Navigation Program
  Carla StromEmily CopusKaren Winkfield

  The Office of Cancer Health Equity at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center developed an innovative Population Health Navigation Program to improve access to care and reduce disparities.

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• Policy Forum: Issue Brief
  January 09, 2024 EDT
  The Persistent Three: Combating Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke in North Carolina
  Melanie PhelpsGoldie Smith ByrdRuben Mesa

  Significant advances in science and medicine have not been adequate to dethrone heart disease, cancer, and stroke from their positions as three of the top killers of North Carolinians.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 05, 2023 EDT
  The Proliferation of Hospital-Based Violence-Intervention Programs in North Carolina
  Britney E. BrownUzuri I. Holder

  Hospital-based violence intervention programs provide an example of multifaceted approach needed to address violence as a public health issue.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 03, 2023 EDT
  Reducing Health Disparities: Is Concordant Care the Answer?
  David G. Jacobs

  Enhanced patient-provider communication is the most-commonly cited mechanism through which patient-provider racial/ethnic concordance exerts its purported benefit.