The “Healthy Lives- Healthy Communities: Building Health Equity in Missouri One Community at a time” conference will take place on April 27, 2012, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Columbia. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Thomas LaVeist from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, one o the most known health disparities researchers today. [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services through the Office of Minority Health Think Cultural Health Program has a section of tools and resources that your organization may find useful in addressing some of the major challenges in providing cultural effective care. If you are interested, please see the links below: Think-Speak-Act Cultural Health: Part [...]
The ACHIEVE Research Partnership, “Action for Health Equity Interventions,” has announced a call for Applications for post-doctoral fellowships. ACHIEVE is aimed to equip new researchers with the competencies necessary for closing the gap between measuring inner city health inequities and reducing them. The program has two main foci: * Population Health and Health Services Interventions [...]
From 1999 to 2010, the awareness of the racial and ethnic disparities that disproportionately affect African Americans and Hispanics or Latinos has increased with only four percent, from 55% to 59 % . The authors found that awareness about health disparities remains limited in the general population and is even more limited among racial and [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability status on October 31, 2011. According to the Office of Minority Health’s website, the standards will ” apply to population health surveys sponsored by HHS, where respondents either self-report information or a [...]
A few weeks ago, patients, staff and providers at my organization celebrated our second annual Diversity Day, where staff, programs and community partners come together to “break bread” and share information about their ethnic community or affinity group. It was an overwhelming success: 12 table displays of different countries, several focusing on distinct community partnerships [...]
Learn about national, state and county-level hunger in this new food insecurity map.
The US Department of Health and Human Services is asking for public comment on the proposed data collection standards for race, ethnicity, primary language, sex, and disability status required by section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act. Comments are accepted until August 1, 2011. If you are interested, please see the link below. Public Comments [...]
A new project summary from the Missouri Health Equity Collaborative (MOHEC) has been released, highlighting the findings from MOHEC’s 2010 research. Please see the summary at the following link: Missouri Health Equity Collaborative (MOHEC) 2010
The Missouri Health Equity Collaborative ( MOHEC) EHR working group is devoted to examining how we should and could be using current and emerging data to identify and target specific health disparities in Missouri. This group will also be charged with proactively planning how to educate consumers on their right to have a copy of [...]
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