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Puerto Rican Day Parade
Several members of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities were on hand at the annual Puerto Rican Parade & Latino Fest providing free blood pressure screening.
EXTRA: Did you know that peers are important for nutrition education among Latinos?
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Posted by: David Porter on July 22, 2008
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Category: About Us; Latinos; Nutrition; Puerto Rican; hypertension
Blogging Against Disablism Day
On May 1st the Health Disparities Blog will join a host of other medical bloggers with an entry focused on the topic of health disparities and disabilities.
More information can be found here.
Make sure you check back tomorrow.
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Posted by: David Porter on April 30, 2008
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Category: About Us
Environmental Justice, Public Health & Health Disparities
On Wednesday April 16, 2008, Dr. Sacoby Wilson will present:
“Environmental Justice, Public Health & Health Disparities”
Time: 9:30-11:00 am
Location: MetroHealth Medical Center - Rammelkamp Building - Room R240
All are welcome to attend.
For more information please contact Center Business Coordinator Cydney Johnson at 216-778-8484 or by email at cjohnson3@metrohealth.org.
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Posted by: David Porter on April 15, 2008
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Category: About Us
Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D.
Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D. will be visiting the Center for Reducing Health Diparities tomorrow.
Dr. Wolfe is the founder and director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen.
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Posted by: David Porter on March 03, 2008
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Category: About Us
Health Disparities in Nephrology
Center Director Ashwini Sehgal, MD and Andrew O'Connor, DO will moderate "Health Disparities in Nephrology" at the American Society of Nephrology meeting in San Francisco this weekend.
From the ASN's website:
Health disparities are differences in health-related outcomes by race, gender, socioeconomic status, or other relevant subgroups. Striking disparities occur in the onset and progression of CKD, in many dialysis-related outcomes, and in access to kidney transplantation. This symposium will describe disparities relevant to nephrology, discuss the mechanisms for the disparities, and review interventions to reduce or eliminate disparities.
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Posted by: David Porter on October 30, 2007
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Category: About Us
Improving Access to Kidney Transplants
The Center for Reducing Health Disparities was recently awarded $6 million to study access to kidney transplants as well as hypertension in Cleveland's minority community.
From today's Plain Dealer:
Dr. Ashwini Sehgal, a MetroHealth Medical Center physician and a co-medical director for the Cleveland Department of Public Health, will lead the project. A cornerstone of the research will be locating and training kidney transplant recipients to act as ambassadors for kidney failure patients.
"Right now, to get a transplant you have to be interested, medically suitable, go to a transplant center, get on a waiting list and then move up the list," said Sehgal.
"Barriers to poor people and minorities exist at several of those steps."
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Posted by: David Porter on October 05, 2007
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Category: About Us; Health Disparities
Clinical and Translational Science Award
Center Director Ash Sehgal, MD on WCPN.
We want to encourage and facilitate a different kind of research where researchers and community members act as equal partners. They jointly decide how the data should be collected and they jointly interpret, disseminate and act on the findings of those data.
You can hear the audio at WCPN.org.
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Posted by: David Porter on September 21, 2007
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Category: About Us
$6 Million NIH Grant Awarded to Center for Reducing Health Disparities
The Center for Reducing Health Disparities Receives $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study and address disparities related to hypertension and kidney disease in Cleveland.
A summary of the proposed work is below.
Cleveland is characterized by an extremely high poverty rate, substantial numbers of racial/ethnic minorities, and marked health disparities. We propose to engage Cleveland's health care providers, educational institutions, community organizations, and government agencies to understand and reduce health disparities. To take advantage of pre-existing community and institutional strengths, we will focus initially on 3 inter-related prototypical conditions: hypertension, kidney disease, and transplantation. These conditions affect many individuals and have some of the most striking health disparities observed in the United States.
The Research Core includes projects that involve (a) utilizing lay health advisors to help patients address the social contextual factors that act as barriers to hypertension management, (b) utilizing interpreters as advocates for Spanish speaking patients with hypertension or kidney disease, and (c) utilizing transplant recipients as navigators to improve access to kidney transplantation.
The Research Training/Education Core involves (a) recruiting students, particularly from minority backgrounds, into undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral programs related to health disparities, (b) providing diverse educational opportunities relevant to health disparities research, and (c) supporting postdoctoral students and junior faculty, particularly from underrepresented groups, to ensure successful entry into academic positions.
The Community Engagement/Outreach Core involves a community-based video intervention to enhance signing of organ donor cards. The Administrative Core will coordinate and foster interactions across projects/cores, provide shared resources and personnel, assist in other community efforts to address disparities, lead interactions with other NCMHD Research Centers of Excellence, disseminate findings, and develop future initiatives.
Each of the three research projects as well as the Community Engagement/Outreach Core focus on testing interventions to reduce health disparities. Moreover, the design of these interventions is informed by an understanding of the mechanisms that created health disparities in each of the areas studied.
Other strengths and innovative features of our application include selection of projects through a community-wide approach, a strong institutional commitment, and the experience and commitment of the study team. In addition, the proposed projects have been designed not only to address an important aspect of health disparities but also to set the stage for future larger scale efforts. The community and institutional infrastructure established as a result of conducting these projects will be used in future efforts that target a broader range of conditions.
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Posted by: David Porter on September 20, 2007
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Category: About Us