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Getting aggressive with health disparities. Olufunmilayo Olopade. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
U.S. Efforts to Boost Medical Care for Poor Effective Mar 2, 2007
Health Disparities Collaboratives is having limited success, study finds ... The Health Disparities Collaboratives, sponsored by the government's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), were designed to improve health care in community health centers, which often cater to underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minorities and uninsured patients ... The researchers tracked outcomes for 9,658 patients at 44 community health centers participating in the Health Disparities... (MEDLINEplus)
State Panel Eager To Improve Black Men's Lives, Solve Issues Feb 28, 2007
" McNeil's comments echoed the pervasive concern among the council's 18 present members about the need not just to study, but to start solving social problems that disproportionately affect black men and boys. "We have the key deer, the alligator, the crocodile, we have the redwood forest," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami, who co-sponsored last year's legislation that created the council. "All of these are endangered species that this country is wrapping its arms around with foundations to... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
DEBORAH SIMMONS: Whistlers in Dixie Feb 23, 2007
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama "took a verbal beating from older leaders and those who feel the need to cozy up to the old guard while seeking their leadership strips. The senior crew questioned the senator's lack of dues paid, his skimpy congressional legislative record and blackness quotient... Part of the reaction by the last generation to the ascendancy of Mr. Obama is about shifting strategies on how to confront the African American political journey. For the exiting generation it has... (Washington Times)
UA football team to host drug awareness camp for youth Feb 21, 2007
Export aims to eliminate health disparities among minority groups in regards to diabetes and substance abuse. The athletes will be on hand to organize football drills as part of the learning activities held throughout the day. (FOX 11, AZ)
17th U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona and Canyon Ranch Institute Present Todobebe With First-Ever Prevention Pioneer Award Feb 17, 2007
President of Canyon Ranch Institute and 17th Surgeon General of the United States Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, presents Todobebe founders Gillian Sandler (left), Julia Dangond and Jeannette Kaplun with the institute's first Prevention Pioneer Award - which honors organizations for fostering wellness, increasing prevention, eliminating health disparities and improving health literacy - on Feb. 16 at the Todobebe headquarters in Miami ... "The Canyon Ranch Institute Prevention Pioneer... (PR Newswire)
Heart disease rate in the US on the rise Feb 17, 2007
The results indicated that substantial geographic, racial/ethnic, educational, and sex disparities existed in the prevalence of MI and angina/CHD. To lower the incidence of heart disease and meet the overall Healthy People 2010 goal to eliminate health disparities, public health programs should target disproportionately affected populations. BRFSS is a state-based, random-digit--dialed telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized, U.S. civilian population aged >18 years and is administered by... (Food Consumer)
Series of events at PCC and ECU celebrate Black History Month Feb 9, 2007
ECU events include a Tuesday talent show modeled on the television show, "Showtime at the Apollo" and a series of Brody Medical School lectures focusing on health disparities, eating habits and the role of the black church in community health ... Feb. 16: Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities (lecture): 12:30-1:30 p.m., Brody Medical Sciences Building, Room 2W-40. (The Daily Reflector)
Local news briefs Feb 5, 2007
Community Information Network's mission is to provide prevention education and information services on HIV and other health disparities that disproportionately impact the minority communities. Donations are needed to continue the mission. (Pensacola News Journal)
Unity on Martin Luther King Day Jan 16, 2007
State Senator Dianne Wilkerson and state Representative Gloria L. Fox, both of Roxbury, warned that the African-American community is now wrestling with other challenges beyond civil rights such as high homicide rates and severe health disparities. Wilkerson credited Mayor Thomas M. Menino for focus ing on those issues. (Boston Globe)
Icon for the movement Jan 15, 2007
and work on those areas of education, equality and health disparities, Sellers said. We must continue to work in creating a sense of hope in our young people and building a legacy that will test their faith. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
IU School of Medicine Diversity Week Jan 13, 2007
Wednesday, Jan. 17 "Health Disparities: Racism's Role and its Origin and Perpetuation" Aaron Shirley, M.D., Chairman of the Board, Jackson Medical Mall Foundation. Thursday, Jan. 18 "Cardiovascular health disparity in the Minority Community" Hilton Hudson, II, MD, founder, Hilton Publishing Company and Health Literacy Foundation. (FOX59, IN)
Teens star in mini-series promoting healthy lifestyles Jan 5, 2007
The DVD, Livin in Your Body 4 Life was prepared with apprentices working with the University s Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research, which was established to study why breast cancer occurs earlier and is more deadly in African-American women ... We wanted to have a video project that speaks directly to the students we were trying to reach, so we sought ideas from our apprentices in the formatting of the project, in the music and other ways in which the information was... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
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