The Affordable Care Act and LGBT Americans
A new federal fact sheet now outlines how LGBT Americans will have better access to stable, affordable health insurance and high quality health care under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read more…
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – 2012 Healthy Lives- Healthy Communities, Health Equity Conference
Call for Abstracts Healthy Lives – Healthy Communities: Building Health Equity in Missouri One Community at a Time Friday, April 27, 2012 Garden Conference Center at Hilton Garden Inn Columbia, Missouri The poster session is targeted toward high school, undergraduate and graduate students conducting basic, clinical, translational, and communitybased participatory research related to understanding and [...]
Save the Date: Healthy Lives – Healthy Communities: Building Health Equity in Missouri One Community at a time!
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. [...]
Missouri Rural Health Biennial 2011 Report
From Missouri DHSS, the 2010-2011 Missouri Rural Health Report is rich with data related to Missouri’s underserved, rural populations. Download the most recent report or archives at http://health.mo.gov/living/families/ruralhealth/publications.php.
Think Cultural Health from the Office of Minority Health, DHHS
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 [...]
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: The story of U. S. health expenditures
On December 8, 2011, Dr. Elizabeth Bradley, a professor of public health at Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute, wrote an interesting editorial. In the editorial, she discussed findings from a recent study comparing United States health expenditures to those of other countries. While not a health disparities editorial, it is highly relevant. Most people interested [...]
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Advancing Health Equity for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Populations
This report published by the Joint Center for Political and Economical Studies is a comprehensive review of general and specific ACA provisions with the potential to significantly improve health and health care for millions of diverse populations and their communities. Authors: Dennis P.Andrulis, Ph.D, MPH Nadia J. Siddiqui, MPH Jonathan Purtle, MSc Lisa Duchon, Ph.D., [...]
Building Health Equity in Kansas City – Presentations now available online
The Building Health Equity in Kansas City meeting took place on December 7, 2011 at the Kauffman Conference Center in Kansas City. Around 90 health care stakeholders from the Kansas City area participated in discussions about health care disparities experienced by individuals who are newcomers to the region (immigrants and refugees), who have underlying mental [...]
ACHIEVE Post Doctoral Fellowships Announced
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 [...]
Awareness Of Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities Has Improved Only Modestly Over A Decade
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 [...]
