Belue Receives Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Press Release - July 6, 2006
Penn State's Center for Health Care and Policy Research, on behalf of Rhonda Belue, assistant professor of health policy and administration, has been awarded a $48,561 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the quality and type of care at hospitals and ambulatory care facilities.
Belue's study will explore factors associated with racial and ethnic disparities in patients‚ perceptions of the quality and receipt of care. In addition, the study will examine the characteristics and types of facilities in which minority children receive care and the quality of care those facilities provide.
Belue's research has focused on methodologies for developing and evaluating interventions to reduce health disparities for chronic relapsing disease in low-income families. Prior to coming to Penn State in 2005, she was a division leader for public health research and evaluation at the Metropolitan Public Health Department in Nashville, Tenn.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health-care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health-care of all Americans, the foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change.