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...first, to eliminate disparities in healthcare among racial and ethnic groups, has been one of Satcher's career-long goals. He says it stems from the inadequate health care he received as a child. Today, life expectancies, mortality rates, infant death rates and morbidity rates are highest among America's ethnic minorities...
...Satcher aims to eliminate disparity in the morbidity rates across racial and ethnic lines by the year...
According to Claire V. Broom, M.D., a former colleague of his at the CDC, Satcher has been effective in making minority healthcare a national concern...
...idea is a balanced approach where we emphasize [such things as] physical activity and nutrition and responsible sexual behavior," Satcher says. "We don't support physical education in schools, parks and safe walking trails in schools, parks and safe walking trails in communities, and yet we spend a lot of money treating people after they are sick...
...Satcher's platform also includes increasing immunization rates and cancer-screening--projects he also promoted...