Be my health policy valentine #healthpolicyvalentines. Community Health Center Presents Conversations on Health Care. The Question Doctors Can't Ask. UNNATURAL CAUSES. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Report Report Brief. What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (PDF) (PDF) Report Brief. What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (Spanish) (PDF) (PDF) Report Brief. What Health Care Providers Need to Know About Racial and Ethic Disparities in Healthcare (PDF) (PDF) Report Brief.
What Health Care System Administrators Need to Know About Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare (PDF) (PDF) Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may contribute to inequities in care; and recommend policies and practices to eliminate these inequities. The report says a large body of research underscores the existence of disparities. World Health Organization. Sbc111 : Presenting about Social Media... A Bully Pulpit for Health Equity. This guest post is written by Aldon Hynes Last year I was at a discussion about health equity at the Connecticut Health Foundation and mentioned that the prior year, I had received a $26,000 grant from the State to discuss health equity issues.
I explained how the program works and promised to provide more details when the next grant cycle came around. Well, here we are. People are starting to apply for the 2014 grants and I want to make sure that my fellow health equity advocates are well informed about the program and how they can apply. I should also note, upfront, that this program is not specifically aimed at health equity issues. It’s the Citizens’ Election Program. It can be used to advocate for many issues, some may make access to quality health care more equitable, others could actually create new hurdles in the fight for health equity. In my case, I ran for State Representative and qualified for a Citizens’ Election Program grant of $26,000.
Image courtesy of Aldon Hynes. Health Equity and the 2014 CT Legislative Session. Last year, as a member of the Connecticut Health Foundation’s Health Leadership Fellows Program the group I was part of mapped out plans for bring Health Impact Assessments into Connecticut policy decisions, especially the state legislative process. A key component of this plan was to improve the way health advocates work together during the legislative session. We set up a Google Group, CT Health Equity Bills to discuss this. As we enter another legislative session, members are encouraged to discuss upcoming bills and opportunities to testify. I must admit, prior to becoming a CT Health Foundation fellow, I would often be asked to support various bills, and I rarely thought about these bills in terms of the impact they would have on health equity, and I suspect that many legislators don’t think about bills in terms of health equity the way I believe they should.
Meanwhile, I’m already getting messages from activists to support different bills. Another bill I was contacted about was S.B. Tell A Friend - Get Covered. Video. We Know What You're Thinking | Health Justice CT Challenge. Wrapping Up Health 2.0 | Doctor Data. Health 2.0 wraps up today and it has been full of fascinating discussion, new technology and most importantly the opportunity to improve the lives of everyday Americans. We will be taking away new tasks, new ideas and new goals. Some highlights for us We had the opportunity to talk with Gregg Masters of HealthInnovationMedia.com about medical crowd sourcing and how effective it can be, from remote parts of the globe to urban centers.Peter Kirk, our CEO, unveiled a trailer about Floating Doctors’ work in Panama on Monday afternoon.
His words resonated with the audience when he quoted from the Hippocratic Oath, “I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.”Floating Doctors’ Sky LaBrot and our own SVP Jon Michaeli debuted the documentary to an enthusiastic audience yesterday. We had a great time at Health 2.0 – we only hope we gave as much to everyone to ponder as are taking away. Community Health Centers Will Help Enroll Millions in Health Care Coverage Available under the Affordable Care Act - Stand Up for Health Care. The week of August 11 is National Health Center Week, and there is reason to celebrate these important organizations.
Community health centers provide health services to low-income and medically underserved communities, removing barriers to care that these communities regularly face. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, community health centers are taking on a new and crucial role: outreach and enrollment efforts to connect people to the new coverage options available under the health care law. In the United States, health centers serve approximately 22.3 million people who need help getting health care services. Thirty-six percent of the patients at community health centers are uninsured, Forty percent are on Medicaid, Seventy-two percent have incomes that are at or below the federal poverty line ($11,490 for an individual in 2013), and many are from racial and ethnic minority groups. Fact Sheets - Health Center Week. It is important that we deliver a strong message for America’s Health Centers.
There are 44 million uninsured people in this nation and another 56 million who, although they may have health insurance, live in areas without doctors and basic health services. We need to raise awareness of the needs that exist in our communities and the high costs of failure to provide primary care and preventive health. More people need to understand that ours is a tested and accountable model of health care has produced the markers to expanding access and providing the cost effective care that can improve health delivery. National Health Center Week is your chance to speak out for your health center and the people and communities who rely on its services for healthy and productive lives. - America's Health Centers Factsheet - America's Health Centers Factsheet - en español - Health Centers: Cost Effectiveness Factsheet* Racialwealthgapbrief. Aldon @ Community Health Center of Middletown. Public Health Accreditation Board - Home.
Regional Health Equity Councils - National Partnership for Action. The NPA is a public-private initiative that seeks to mobilize a nationwide, comprehensive, community-driven, and sustained approach to combating health disparities and to move the nation toward achieving health equity. The Regional Health Equity Councils (RHECs) are independent non-governmental organizations located in ten regions of the country. Each council comprises leaders and stakeholders from both non-federal public and private sectors from within that region. Examples of sectors represented on the RHEC include academia, community based organizations, health systems, health insurers, state legislators, faith-based organizations, foundations, state government organizations, etc.
The RHECs' primary role is to initiate action to implement the goals of the NPA and therefore, advance the agenda to eliminate health disparities from the grassroots. The RHECs have been established to: Identify key regional health inequity issues and drivers, and advance a responsive agenda. Connecticut Commission on Health Equity. CHE was signed into legislation in 2008 under Public Act No. 08-171, "an Act Establishing a Commission on Health Equity. " The purpose of CHE is to affect legislation to improve the health outcomes of residents based on race, ethnicity, gender and linguistic ability.
In establishing CHE, the Connecticut General Assembly acknowledges that: (1) equal enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is a human right and a priority of the state, (2) Connecticut residents experience barriers to the equal enjoyment of good health based on race, ethnicity, national origin and linguistic ability, and (3) that addressing such barriers requires data collection and analysis and the development and implementation of policy solutions. OUR MISSIONThe Connecticut Commission on Health Equity was established to eliminate disparities in health status based on race, ethnicity, gender and linguistic ability, thereby improving the quality of health for all of the state's residents.
Community Transformation Grant. The purpose of this initiative is to create healthier communities by; 1) building capacity to implement broad evidence and practice-based policy, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure changes, as appropriate, in large counties, and in states, tribes and territories, including in rural and frontier areas and 2) supporting implementation of such interventions in five strategic areas (Strategic Directions) aligning with Healthy People 2020 focus areas and achieving demonstrated progress in the following five performance measures outlined in the Affordable Care Act: 1) changes in weight, 2) changes in proper nutrition, 3) changes in physical activity, 4) changes in tobacco use prevalence, and 5) changes in emotional well being and overall mental health, as well as other program-specific measures.
Cadh.org. Partnerships and Collaborations › Bioscience Connecticut › University of Connecticut Health Center. A series of initiatives involving area hospitals that will help meet the future health care needs of our region and state have been established. Each has its own schedule of implementation and the total estimated cost of these initiatives is $25 million. Health Disparities Institute Led by UConn in conjunction with national, regional and state partners Bioscience Connecticut calls for the establishment of a University of Connecticut sponsored Health Disparities Institute (HDI).
Primary Care Institute Led by Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center and the UConn School of Medicine Analysis shows a growing shortage of primary care physicians in the nation and in Connecticut. CIPCI is housed on the campus of Saint Francis, with governance shared between the two entities. Simulation Center Led by Hartford Hospital The Simulation Center, housed at Hartford Hospital, offers sophisticated training for the next generation of physicians and surgeons. National Comprehensive Cancer Center.
CTHealth (CT Health Foundation) The Year of Access. Today’s guest blog was written by Aldon Hynes, Social Media Manager for Community Health Center, Inc. (a grantee of the foundation). Aldon is a participant in the Class of ’13 Leadership Fellows. Recently, the Connecticut Health Foundation sponsored a panel, “Opportunities for Moving the Needle on Health Equity in 2013”. It featured Patricia Baker, President and CEO of the Connecticut Health Foundation, Teresa Younger, Executive Director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and Judith Blei, founder of a Government Relations firm. The panel was attended by a couple dozen alumni and current members of the Health Leadership Fellows Program.
Pat Baker set the tone for the discussion, referring to 2013 as the year of access. Yet the bigger question for all of the health leadership fellows was what they could do to make sure that the changes taking place would, in fact, reduce health disparities, especially in a year of tight budgets. Aldon @ The Conference of Churches. Doctors tell how they use social media as professional watercooler. David May, MD, describes Twitter as a doctors’ lounge. When he wants to discuss the latest journal articles or clinical research, there are always other doctors on hand to offer their opinions and add to the discussion. But unlike a doctors’ lounge, the discussion isn’t limited to colleagues down the hospital corridor. It can include thousands of people from around the world. “The social media world is such an intense, immediately responsive place that you can have tremendous amounts of traffic pointing out the good and bad about an article itself technically, about the concepts that were put forward, and about potential flaws that were in a paper,” said Dr.
May, a cardiologist from Lewisville, Texas. Like Dr. A study published online Sept. 24 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that 85% of oncologists and primary care physicians use social media at least once a week or once a day to scan or explore health information. Dr. Closed vs. open communities. American Medical News. The Impact of Health Literacy on a Patient’s Decision to Adopt a Personal Health Record | Perspectives. By Alice M. Noblin, PhD, RHIA, CCS; Thomas T. H. Wan, PhD; and Myron Fottler, PhD Abstract Health literacy is a concept that describes a patient’s ability to understand materials provided by physicians or other providers.
Keywords: health literacy, personal health records, electronic health records Introduction As more physicians adopt electronic health records (EHRs) to obtain financial subsidies under Medicare and Medicaid, the opportunity to provide personal health records (PHR) to their patients will become more common.1 A PHR is defined as “an electronic, lifelong resource of health information needed by individuals to make health decisions.”2 As implied by its name, the PHR is maintained by the patient and is not considered to be a part of the legal medical record.
Background Ajzen and Fishbein23 include attitude as one of the predictors of a person’s behavioral intention. Subjective norms also affect the likelihood of a behavior. Hypotheses Methods Statistical Analysis Results Discussion. Nashville Mobile Market. Epi + demos + cracy: Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities—Evidence, Gaps, and a Research Agenda. Jason Beckfield and Nancy Krieger Correspondence to Dr. Nancy Krieger, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: nkrieger@hsph.harvard.edu ). Accepted April 8, 2009. Abstract A new focus within both social epidemiology and political sociology investigates how political systems and priorities shape health inequities. Democracy epidemiology health status health status disparities politics public health social class socioeconomic factors Epi + demos + cracy The terms “ + + ” together lend themselves to the study of how political systems and priorities shape population health and the magnitude of health inequities.
However, epidemiologists are not alone in asking these questions. To date, these 2 bodies of literature, despite common interest in population health and health inequities, have rarely engaged directly. Social epidemiology Political sociology Table 1. Table 2. Welfare state. County Health Roadmaps | County Health Rankings. Daniel E. Dawes To Present Bellos Lecture at Yale School of Nursing | Yale School of Nursing. Healthy Living Resources, Healthy Lifestyles, Prevention of Health Issues, Reliable Health Info. The Power of Play. Puppet show » Xanate Media. Conference Overload! #InternetWeek #pdf2011 #weitzman #chc2011 #gsmamha #healthapps.
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