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Office of Minority Health (OMH) Monthly Newsletter
on March 3, 2009
For current information and regular updates on issues related to health disparities, view the Office of Minority Health's monthly newsletter, Healthier Minorities, Healthier America.
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Celebrate minority health month, April 2009
on March 3, 2009
Preconception health is OMH's focus for Minority Health Month, April 2009, and we call on State and local governments and offices of minority health to organize events and put forth proclamations to bring due attention to the issue. This focus generates awareness of the high rates of infant mortality in African American communities and the importance of preconception health and care in its prevention. This theme will climax in September during National Infant Mortality Awareness Month.
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Finally, a summit about minorities' health disparities
on March 3, 2009
Thousands of scientists, health care workers and policymakers, among others, convened at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, just outside Washington, D.C., for the first government-sponsored scientific summit on minority health and health disparities."This is the Academy Awards of health disparities," says John Ruffin, director of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), the National Institutes of Health center that coordinated the "Science of Eliminating Health Disparities" summit.
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Kaiser Family Foundation
on March 3, 2009
The Kaiser Family Foundation presents a new series of live, interactive webcasts devoted to addressing a range of issues relating to health and health care disparities in the United States. Each discussion features a panel of experts tackling current issues in health disparities and answering questions from webcast viewers.
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Kaiser Family Foundation
on March 3, 2009
With a new administration and substantially changed Congress in Washington, there is a significant opportunity for new policy initiatives to tackle issues of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.
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HRSA
on February 24, 2009
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced the renewal of $7.2 million in annual operating grants to public and private agencies that act as the eyes and ears of the nation's rural health care system - which serves the most geographically isolated communities in the country.
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South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
on February 23, 2009
The SC Rural Health Research Center at the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina is pleased to announce the release of a new final report. The chartbook, entitled "Health Disparities: A Rural-Urban Chartbook", is authored by Kevin J. Bennett, PhD, Bankole Olatosi, PhD, and Janice C. Probst, PhD.
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Cures for an ailing system
on December 10, 2007
Everyone in America should have health insurance that covers at least a basic level of care. This would give them access to medical services and ensure that health-care providers are paid. Improving access to care this way would actually slow the growth in health-care spending because people who become seriously ill.
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Opening young eyes to a prize: a career in medicine
on December 9, 2007
Amanda Rowley, a soft-spoken 11-year-old from Harlem, already knows what she wants to be: a heart surgeon. She got the idea a few years ago from watching the doctors on her favorite cable television shows. She is often surprised when she meets people who do not take her seriously.
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