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Text Box:   Topics of Interest In this Issue World AIDS Day  1 International Migrants Day  18 Universal Human Rights Month Safe Toys & Celebrations Month                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    National Allied Health Week, 7—13   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   · National Marrow Awareness Month · National Allied Health Week, 7—13        

Text Box:   DECEMBER  QUESTION   Across countries there is a fairly consistent age grouping of children orphaned by AIDS.  About 50% of AIDS orphans are under what age?   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 December 7.   Answer to the November Question:  The Indian Health Service reported an increase in type 2 diabetes in children and young adults < 35 years of age (1990—2002) of 132%. Best Practices from The Special Diabetes Program for Indians, p. 148.         Did You Know? ◦ Routine medical procedures as electrocardiogram for a survivor of electrical torture or a gynecological exam for a rape survivor may trigger a flashback. Health professionals can use certain strategies to help torture survivors through needed procedures without without being retraumatized. ◦ About 15 million people worldwide are refugees or asylum seekers.  The largest number of ayslum seekers are from Afghanistan and Palestine. ◦ One in 275 people in the world are refugees, returned refugees, internally displacd peopleve Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician, were tortured, convicted, and sentenced to death for supposedly passing HIV to orphans in an Libyan orphanage.  have been convicted and are beliefs or religion.         

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Text Box: Article of the Month Wu E, Martinez M. Taking cultural competency from theory to action.  The Commonwealth Fund, pub. #964.  October 2006. This article uses an analysis of best-practices from case studies to expand on six principals of cultural competency for health care organizations : 1.  community representation and feedback at all levels of the organization; 2. cultural competency must be integrated into all existing systems of a health care organization, particularly quality improvement efforts; 3.  changes made must be manageable, measurable, and sustainable; making the business case is a critical element for change; 5.  commitment from leadership is key factor to success; 6.  staff training is necessary on an ongoing basis.  Data collection was critical for monitoring progress and understanding patient’s needs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               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.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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Text Box:                       What is the Impact of AIDS on Societies?: 2006 Report on the Global  AIDS Epidemic

HIV/AIDS

 

World AIDS Day– 2006 Theme:  Focusing on Accountability—what can we do?  Emphasizes actions across faith communities and national boundaries.

World Vision Aids Test—what do you know about the international AIDS epidemic?

Which countries met 2005 global targets to reduce HIV/AIDS? (Chapter on Progress In Countries) 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

How are children impacted by becoming AIDS orphans?  What are some of in their countries that sustain them ? AIDS Orphans

What are the decisions that health care providers must make in an African hospital treating 700 AIDS patients?  HIV-AIDS in Tanzania– Realities on the Ground.

Human Rights
and Health

 

Children affected by armed conflict: UNICEF Actions Data collection projects by UNICEF seek to quantify how children are affected by war.    

 

Careers in Medicine: Clinical Service in Developing Countries—Dr. Louise Ivers discusses challenges and rewards of practice abroad in a developing country.

 

Six Imprisoned Health Care workers In Libya Are Pawns in a Far Larger Strategic  Game, With Enormous Repercussions— how is this case linked to the freedom of health care workers who choose to work internationally?

 

What did this world expert in treating torture victims learn during his own imprisonment? Bhogendra Sharma  from Nepal.

International Migrants

 

Fast Facts on refugees and other displaced persons – how many people in the world are refugees or displaced persons?

Migration, Refugees, and Health Risks—what are some of the health risks that affect migrants?

“The Fear is Still in Me”: Caring for Survivors of Torture: How to identify, assess, and treat those who have endured this extreme trauma. 

Could the health concerns of migrant agricultural workers be linked to over consumption of food in the US? Migration and health: Fact, fiction, art, politics

 Safe Toys & Celebrations

 

Tips on Toys—linking children’s developmental milestones with lists of safe toys at each age level.  

Trouble in Toyland: 20th Annual Toy Safety Survey— discuss implications from this report for parents who do not read English, have low literacy in English,  or from other disadvantaged groups.

Think Toy Safety—English/Spanish Coloring Book—what toy safety concerns does this book address?  What strategies does it use to go beyond already identified dangerous toys?  How could this approach be expanded for use with other diverse groups?

 

Other Observances in December

International Mountain Day   11

Christmas 25

Posadas (Mexico) 16-24

Kwanzaa 12/26-1/2

Tohji-taisai, Grand Ceremony of
Winter Solstice (Shinto, Japan) 21

Death of Prophet Zarathurstra, 26   Zoroastrian faith

Yule, 21   Wiccan celebration of
Winter Solstice

Hand Washing Awareness Month

Hanukkah 12/16—23

 

Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month
 

Arts, Cultural, and Health Awareness Events

Red Ribbon Giveaway

12/1

11:30-1:30 pm

Culp, Atrium & Main Meal

Free, Confidential HIV Testing

12/1 12-3 pm

Culp, 3rd Floor, Room 4B

Movie: A Closer Walk

12/1 6:30 pm

Brown Hall Auditorium Rm112

Student Ceramics Association’s Annual Holiday Art Sale

12/1 12 pm

Culp, Center Ballroom

Kelly Bernhart BFA and James Livingston, MFA Exhibitions

12/5 8 am

Slocumb Galleries, Ball Hall

Chair Massages

12/6 10 am

Culp, Atrium
 

Arts, Cultural, and Health Awareness Events

World AIDS Day Student Art Contest

12/1
10 AM—2

Culp

Alumni Hall

World AIDS Day

12/1
11:30 AM

Culp Atrium

World Aids Day—College of Medicine & Dept. of Public Health

12/1
11:30—1

Stanton Gerber, Large Aud.

ETSU Percussion Ensemble

12/3
3 PM

Mathes Hall

Postcard Show and Silent Art Auction

12/4-12/15

Ball Hall, Slocumb Galleries

ETSU Choral Christmas Concert

12/8

8 PM

Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church

Book Discussion:

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, Carlos Eire

12/11
5:30 PM

409 Sherod Library