Assessment and Impact of a Summer Environmental Justice and Health Enrichment Program: A Model for Pipeline Development
| العنوان: | Assessment and Impact of a Summer Environmental Justice and Health Enrichment Program: A Model for Pipeline Development |
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| المؤلفون: | Sacoby Wilson, Kristen Burwell, Dayna Campbell, LaShanta Rice, Edith M. Williams |
| المصدر: | Environmental Justice. 5:279-286 |
| بيانات النشر: | Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | African american, Gerontology, Environmental justice, education.field_of_study, Medical education, Health professionals, business.industry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Population, Ethnic group, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Bachelor, Representation (politics), Alliance, Medicine, business, education, media_common |
| الوصف: | The need for more enrichment programs for underrepresented groups in the health sciences particularly the environmental health sciences is considerable. The implications of chronic racial/ethnic differences in scientific training are best illustrated by the disproportionate number of health professionals from underrepresented groups. For example, African Americans comprise 13% of the total U.S. population but only account for 4% of U.S. physicians and in 2006, only 7.2% of all bachelor's degrees and 8.6% of all master's degrees awarded to African American were in the health sciences field. In an effort to increase the representation of persons of color in the health sciences, we used our existing community university partnership between the Low Country Alliance for Model Communities, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Maryland-College Park as the basis for a summer enrichment pilot project. The major aim was to provide academic experiences for underrepresented undergraduate a... |
| تدمد: | 1937-5174 1939-4071 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::c4c480f52e73a36e0091319e47185782 https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2012.0014 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........c4c480f52e73a36e0091319e47185782 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19375174 19394071 |
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