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Text Box: The Text Box: The Text Box:   Topics of Interest in this Issue   Women’s Equality Month       Immunization Month                            Minority Donor Awareness, 1                            National Health Center Week 7—13                                                                                                                                                                                                                National Allied Health Week, 7—13   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   · National Marrow Awareness Month · National Allied Health Week, 7—13        

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Text Box: AUGUST QUESTION There are 200,000 hospitalizations annually for influenza, with 36,000 deaths, mostly in the age group 65+.  What are the influenza immunization rates among older adults by racial/ ethnic group? A. 68% of Whites, and about 54% of Hispanics and African Americans are immunized. B. 68% of Whites, 54% of Hispanics and 48% of African Americans are immunized C. 68% of Whites, 54% of African Americans and 48% of Hispanics are immunized   A prize will be awarded to one person, selected at random, who answers correctly. Email your response to nwosu@etsu.edu by 4:30 pm on August 22.  Answer to the June-July Question: 2.8% and 1.4% of the population “self-identified” themselves as gays and lesbians respectively. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health: Findings and Concerns, p. 102.               Did You Know? Changing the Face of Medicine, a national exhibit pays tribute to the contributions of women physicians.  Explore the exhibit online—search by ethnicity, location, career path, or medical school. View the exhibit live  at ETSU, August 23—October 14 in the Sherrod Library. Three significant correlates of willingness to donate organs were found across Whites, African Americans, and Hispanics: 1. Having a family discussion on end of life issues; 2. Concerns about surgical disfigurement of relative’s body due to donation; and 3. Belief that the doctor  did everything possible to save the person’s life before  discussing organ donation.  

Gay & Lesbian Pride MonthText Box: How do Community Health Centers successfully address health disparities?               

Text Box: Health Links on Diversity

Text Box: Article of the Month Dobbie AE, Medrano M, Tysinger J, Olney C.  The BELIEF Instrument: A Preclinical Teaching Tool To Elicit Patient’s Health Beliefs.  Family Medicine 2003; 35 (5): 316—9.         The BELIEF Instrument was developed to help medical students elicit the patient’s health beliefs and encourage discussion leading to collaborative management of the patient’s illness.  Using the BELIEF Instrument, 93.5% of the preclinical medical students tested were able to elicit health beliefs with standardized patients.  The BELIEF Instrument Checklist:   B: Health beliefs (What caused you illness or problem?) E: Explanation (Why did it happen at this time?) L: Learn  (Help me to understand your belief/ opinion.) I: Impact (How is this illness/problem impacting your life?) E: Empathy (This must be very difficult for you.) F: Feelings (How are you feeling about it?) The authors recommended further research using the BELIEF instrument with medical students in clinical settings and with students in other health professions.                                                                                                                                                                         assessed annually for three years.  The research took an ecological approach simultaneously studying multiple individual, family, and community risk and protective factors focused on occurrence of two types of abuse: severe physical assault and assault of child self-esteem.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Text Box: The listing below represents just a few of the resources available to promote knowledge, awareness and discussions on diversity in health care among ETSU students, faculty and staff.    

Women's Equality Day<br>Equality for AllText Box: OCA Newsletter Index Page OCA Home Page

Text Box: August Newsletter Reference List Contact Elaine Evans, Reference Assistant, COM Library, <evans@etsu.edu> for assistance or more information.   OCA Newsletter Index Page              OCA Home Page      

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Lammas & Lughnasadh or First Fruits Celebration  (Celtic, Pagan, Christian celebration of the grain harvest) 1

Chung Yuan (festival to remember ancestors in China and Taiwan) 19

World Breastfeeding Week 1—7

Krishna Jayanti (Hindu celebration to honor birth of Krishna) 27

Cataract Awareness Month

 

Psoriasis Awareness Month

 

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Month

 

Family Eye Care Month

 

Obon (Shinto festival to honor the dead) 19

 
 

WOMEN’S EQUALITY

Workplace discrimination experiences of practicing physicians including female physicians.

 

Exploding Myths about Women in Science & Engineering– Review of the new book, Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes, by Xie and Shauman.

 

Women Pioneers.  Biographies are arranged by field. Includes notable women in Science & Medicine and Nobel Prize Winners.

 

Stories of Women Working for Equality, Families, Peace around the world.  From UN Works.

MINORITY DONOR AWARENESS

Correlates of support for organ donation among three ethnic groups.

 

MOTTEP: Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program—Facts and Figures.  Logo at left is from a MOTTEP initiative to combine health promotion with organ donation awareness among minority populations.  

 

Myths and Facts on Organ Donation

 

African Americans’ Knowledge About Organ Donation: Closing the Gap with More Effective Persuasive Message Strategies  What strategies will work to encourage more African American organ donations?.

IMMUNIZATION AWARENESS

READII—Racial & Ethnic Adult Disparities in Immunization to improve the influenza and pneumoccocal vaccination rates for African Americans and Hispanics age 65 and older.

 

Vaccination of Internationally Adopted Children in General Recommendations on Immunization

 

Focus on African Americans: Potential Barriers to Full Immunization; Latino Children & Immunization: Challenges & Opportunities;

Asian Americans: Challenges in Childhood Immunization

NATIONAL HEALTH CENTER WEEK

History of Community Health Centers—a legacy of the ‘60’s War on Poverty.

 

Health Center Fact Sheet—Tennessee What are health centers, who do they serve, and how does the State of Tennessee compare with the nation?

 

Studies of Health Center Quality of Care Studies of Community Health Centers, “safety net” health care providers, quantify the quality of care their patients receive.

 

Five strategies used by Community Health Centers to eliminate health disparities

 

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Arts, Cultural, and Health Awareness Events

Time Management from the Inside Out:Women’s Lunch Break Seminar

8/2        12 noon

Culp

E. Tennessee Rm.

Pediatric Physical Therapy Conference

More information at 98025

8/4—5

Brown Hall
Auditorium

WRC Book Review Group Sleep Toward Heaven: A Novel

8/14         12 noon

Women’s Resource

Center, Pan Hellenic Hall basement Suite 2

Changing the Face of Medicine

8/23—10/14

Sherrod Library

UMOJA Festival

8/12-8/14

Freedom Hall