Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Stone JR

Department of Medicine, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton University, Nebraska, USA

Biography

John is a physician and philosopher/bioethicist; Professor, Creighton University School of Medicine; Graduate Faculty, the Master's Degree in Health Care Ethics of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics; and Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Creighton's Center for Promoting Health and Health Equality. The latter Center is a community-academic partnership to eliminate health inequalities through community outreach, community-based participatory research, and health disparities research training. His focus is unjust inequalities in health and healthcare. His work includes teaching, scholarship/writing, grants, and programs.

Publications

The Center for Promoting Health and Health Equality’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Program

African-Americans in Douglas County, Nebraska, experience above-average incidence of death and disability from chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease. Current screening and education services are independent and poorly available to minority citizens. Despite communities’ progress in addressing health disparities, barriers preve... Read More»

Kosoko-Lasaki O, Stone JR, Smith J, Brown RL, Harris T, Sanders R, Jackson S, Lassiter D, McMorris K, Issaka S and Klimowicz J

Research Article: J Community Med Health Educ 7:530

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000530

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