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August 30, 2006
More Americans Without Insurance
From USAToday.com.
The percentage of people with job-based health insurance dropped again last year, helping push up the level of uninsured Americans to 15.9% of the population, the highest since 1998.Estimates released Tuesday by the Census Bureau show that 46.6 million people lacked health insurance in 2005, up from 45.3 million in 2004. Unlike in other recent years, there was no increase in the rate of enrollment in government-based programs, such as Medicaid, which had helped to offset declines in private insurance.
Full story at USAToday.com.
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Posted by: David Porter on August 30, 2006
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Category: Health Disparities; Health Inequities; under-insured
August 25, 2006
Health Disparities in Tennessee
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is reporting on racial disparities and health in their online edition.
Some of the highlights of the article:
African-Americans in 2002 were hospitalized at nearly three times the rate of whites for diabetes-related problems.
African-Americans are hospitalized about 50 percent more often for strokes than whites.
African-Americans in Tennessee have higher cancer mortality rate than whites.
Breast cancer occurs at a 12 percent higher incidence among white women, but the mortality rate from breast cancer is 48 percent higher among black women.
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Posted by: David Porter on August 25, 2006
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Category: Health Disparities; racial differences
August 16, 2006
“The Physician’s Role in Increasing Organ Donation"
The Center for Reducing Health Disparities is announcing the first of the fall Works In Progress series.
“The Physician’s Role in Increasing Organ Donation”
Date: Friday, September 8, 2006
3-4 pm
Presented by:
J. Daryl Thornton, M.D., MPH
Senior Researcher
Assistant Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care
Location:
Case Medical School- T503
Please RSVP your attendance to Sharon Lowstetter at slowstetter@metrohealth.org or Sharon.Lowstetter@case.edu or by phone 216-778-8484.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Posted by: David Porter on August 16, 2006
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Category: Organ Donation
August 11, 2006
Mother and Daughter Chats May Save Lives
Teenage girls may be able to influence their mothers’ cancer screening behavior by serving as the messengers of the life-saving information. That’s the result of research conducted by Maghboeba Mosavel, PhD, at the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Mosavel conducted her research over the past year through focus groups of African American and Hispanic female adolescents and their mothers, held in six low-income neighborhoods in Cleveland.
The focus groups, which utilized surveys and discussion, looked at the mother-daughter relationship, health care advice, and then specifically, advice on cervical cancer. “We took the traditional role parents have in teaching their children and shifted the paradigm to see if a daughter can become the teacher,” says Dr. Mosavel. “The study results show a lot of promise.”
The research shows there are two main reasons for this. In the lower-income neighborhoods, young women have better access to educational information than their mothers and can often better navigate systems of information. In addition, in 63% of the participating families, a single mother is the head of the household. In those homes, the mothers and daughters tended to be close in age and have a strong relationship where the mothers often turn to their daughters for advice, including health advice.
While there were differences in motivating factors between the African American and Hispanic focus groups, in both groups the key consideration is how the information would be shared between the daughters and mothers. “It is absolutely important that the girls need to deliver the health information in a culturally-appropriate way, being respectful of their mothers,” says Dr. Mosavel.
The study results are being presented in a “Research in Action” Day this Saturday, August 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church at 3000 Euclid Avenue in one of the neighborhoods where the study was conducted.
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Posted by: David Porter on August 11, 2006
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Category: Cancer Screening; Daughters; Mothers; Research
August 04, 2006
Lack of Primary Care Leads to More Hospitilizations
The Washington Times is reporting that a study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that Blacks and Hispanics were hospitalized more frequently for preventable diabetes-related complications than non-Latino whites and Asians.
The Times states that the study:
'... concludes that many people who comprise those two minority populations are not getting adequate primary and preventive care.'
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Posted by: David Porter on August 04, 2006
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Category: Health Disparities; Preventative Care; Primary Care
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Center for Reducing Health Disparities is glad to announce that Senior Instructor of Medicine, Maghboeba Mosavel PhD, will be presenting, 'Utilizing the Mother-Daughter Relationship to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cervical Cancer.'
The presentation will be held in Wearn 137 from 12pm - 130pm.
You can view the flyer by clicking here.
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Posted by: David Porter on August 04, 2006
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Category: Health