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Topics of Interest In this Issue

Birth Defects Prevention Month

Eye Care Month

Volunteer Blood Donor Month

Healthy Weight Week  21—27

Cultural Competence Self Assessment

 

 

           

              

              

                                                                                                  

                                               

             

       

       

        National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

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· National Marrow Awareness Month

· National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

 

 

 

 

JANUARY QUESTION 

 

Birth defects are the leading cause of infant death and childhood disability.  The California Birth Defects Monitoring Program has found rates of birth defects vary by racial and ethnic group from 12.9—17.5 per 1000 births. Large gaps were also found between US born and foreign born mothers in certain racial/ethnic groups. Which gaps were larger:  differences between racial/ethnic groups or differences between US and foreign born women?

 

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 January 18.

Answer to the December  Question:  Across countries there is a fairly consistent age grouping of children orphaned by AIDS.  About 50% of AIDS orphans are under age  10. 

 

Did You Know

· With the average blood donor being over 50 years of  age, Maintaining the blood supply remains challenging.  Blood centers must find ways to recruit new donors and provide excellent customer service to retain them. 

· Mothers’ prenatal reports of alcohol use were found to be more highly correlated with assessment of infants’  cognitive development than were their retrospective postnatal reports of alcohol use.  The population was an inner city group of African American   mothers.   Validity of Maternal Report of Prenatal AlcoholC, and Smoking in Relation to Neurobehavioral Outcome

 

Health Links on Diversity

Article of the Month 
Perreira KM, Cortes KE.  Race/Ethnicity and Nativity Differences in Alcohol and Tobacco Use During Pregnancy.  American Journal of Public Health September 2006, 96: 9 (1629—35).

This study evaluated the correlates of prenatal substance abuse using a nationally representative of pregnant women (N=4185).   The proportion of births by mothers from racial/ethnic minorities  now comprises 42% of all US live births.  In this study, the association of substance abuse in pregnancy was examined by race, ethnicity, and nativity.  Unwed mothers were over-sampled  in order to determine risk for especially vulnerable populations.  Alcohol, tobacco, or illegal substances were consumed by 23% of pregnant women in the study.  Foreign born women were  less likely to smoke during pregnancy than US born women.  The three main findings were: 1.  U.S. born and foreign born women (mostly Hispanic) were at equal risk of alcohol use during pregnancy; 2. For all races and ethnicities, maternal substance abuse was most closely associated with paternal substance abuse, 3. women at risk had multiple risk factors (partners with history of substance use, an unwanted pregnancy, previous substance abuse treatment).  Planning interventions for prevention of substance abuse during pregnancy requires more research that include larger sub-samples among racial and ethnic groups, including immigrants, as well as risk and protective factors among each group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.  

 

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JANUARY

2007

New Year Self Assessment:

The Youth Leaders Guide to Building Cultural Competence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examine your own cultural heritage and

check your biases