Gender Disparities in Managed Care: It’s Time for Action

Fremont, Allen M.; Correa-de-Araujo, Rosaly; Hayes, Sharonne N.

doi:10.1016/j.whi.2007.04.001

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Volume 17, Issue 3 , Pages 116-119, May 2007

Gender Disparities in Managed Care:

It’s Time for Action

Allen M. Fremont, MD, PhD
- RAND, Santa Monica, California
- University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- West Los Angeles VAMC, Los Angeles, California
- Allen Fremont MD, PhD, is a physician and sociologist whose research focuses on reducing racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in quality of care and health outcomes in managed care settings and communities. He co-leads RAND’s involvement in the National Health Plan Collaborative to Reduce Disparities and Improve Quality. As part of his role, he has led development of indirect estimates of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and language of health plan members where self-reported data is unavailable. He is also leading efforts to develop interactive GIS mapping decision tools to efficiently identify areas with disparities and develop effective interventions to address them. He is the Director and PI for a RAND-led partnership of 30 health care organizations participating in AHRQ’s Acceleration Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) program and is an NIH Disparities Scholar.
- Correspondence to: Allen M. Fremont, MD, PhD, Natural Scientist and Sociologist, RAND, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCLA and West LA VAMC, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407. Phone: 310-393-0411, ext. 7569.
Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, MD, MSc, PhD
- Office of the Secretary/Office of Global Health Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
- Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, MD, MSc, PhD, is the Director of the Office of the Americas, Office of the Secretary/Office of Global Health Affairs at the US. Department of Health and Human Services. In this capacity she oversees the development of joint efforts on global health issues between the United States and other countries in the Americas region. As the former Director of Women’s Health and Gender-Based Research for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Dr. Correa-de-Araujo redirected the Agency’s women’s health program to encompass gender-based research and oversaw the development of a national research agenda for women in consultation with prominent members of the research community and other government agencies. She is the recipient of AHRQ Director’s Award of Excellence for pioneering the introduction of a gender-based approach into health services research.
Sharonne N. Hayes, MD
- Mayo Clinic Women’s Heart Clinic and Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
- Sharone Hayes, MD, is a practicing cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN specializing in heart disease in women, preventive cardiology and echocardiography. Her clinical and research interests include exploring sex-based differences in heart disease and identifying and addressing disparities in cardiovascular disease management. She co-chaired the Jacob’s Institute of Women’s Health conference, “Women and Heart Disease: Putting Prevention into Primary Care” and is chair of the Advisory Board of WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart.