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In order to effectively reduce and/or eliminate health disparities, scientifically based remedies have to be implemented in broad/based behavioral interventions that are focused on changing conditions at the community, state, and governmental levels, in addition to the individual level. Infrastructure, such as social networks involving community-health representatives, peer-outreach workers, community-health aides, and peer educators and their interactions with health-care professionals needs to be established.
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Kwabi-Addo, B. (2017). Translating Health Disparities. In: Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55865-3_12
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