Monthly Archive for March 2010
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March 25, 2010
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Not an "end all be all" solution, but perhaps a contribution to ending disparities. Mr. Satcher's discussion is about health insurance and the lack of coverage that contributes to disparities. Unfortunately, there is much more contributing to disparities aside from coverage including patient AND provider education, environment, and cultural issues that are large contributing factors.
Posted by: Staff on March 25, 2010
Category: Lunch Break Reading
March 19, 2010
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Research scientists from the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC) released the results of a study of breast cancer in Asian women which examined their cancer rates by ethnicity, age and immigrant status. The findings challenge the notion that breast cancer rates are uniformly low across the population of Asian women and indicate rising rates of occurrences in specific ethnic groups. CPIC scientists studied Asian populations in California, the state with the largest and most diverse Asian population in the U.S.
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Telephone counseling programs for smoking cessation, popularly known as "quitlines," are an increasingly common way for smokers to quit. Every state in the U.S. now has one. However, most of them provide counseling services in English and Spanish only. The only quitline so far to offer counseling in multiple Asian languages is the California Smokers' Helpline. Since 1993, the Helpline has been counseling smokers in Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese dialects), Korean and Vietnamese, in addition to English and Spanish.
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Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in the Journal of Pediatrics.
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Arizona on Thursday became the first state to eliminate its Children’s Health Insurance Program when Gov. Jan Brewer signed an austere budget that will leave nearly 47,000 low-income children without coverage.
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Writing in this week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, the article's authors say the scientific rationale for the exclusions, if any, is not at all clear. “Researchers should be held to careful scientific reasons,” they add, “when they develop exclusion criteria that are based on sexual orientation.”
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The "Hearts and Minds" initiative focuses on combating risk factors like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking and obesity for major illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. The program has significant implications for African Americans living with mental illness, who face these risk factors as well as additional disparities in access to and quality of health care.
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The goal of this article is to improve rates of cancer screening and cancer outcomes by increasing the medical community’s understanding of the complex cultural and socioeconomic factors affecting Latinos. This article emphasizes cultural issues related to women’s cancers.
Posted by: Staff on March 19, 2010
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March 17, 2010
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Posted by: Staff on March 17, 2010
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March 11, 2010
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If educators and federal officials are serious about closing academic-achievement gaps, they need to better coordinate efforts to address the health disparities that impede learning for students from disadvantaged groups, according to a study released on March 9.
Posted by: Staff on March 11, 2010
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