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Topics of Interest In this Issue

Mental Retardation Month 

Women’s History Month
Employee Assistance Awareness Month

Patient Safety Awareness Week   5—11

 

             

              

                                                                                                  

                                               

             

       

       

        National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

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· National Marrow Awareness Month

· National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

 

 

 

 

MARCH QUESTION 

What percentage of health plans do not collect information on race and ethnicity?  About

A. 20%

B. 25%

C. 33%

D. 50%

 

Email your response to nwosu@etsu.edu by 4:30 pm on March 15.  Answers are always in a link found in the current month’s newsletter. A prize will be awarded to one winner, selected at random among those who submit the correct answer. 

 

Answer to the February Question:  Among veterans with hypertension under care at VA hospitals, African Americans were significantly more likely than White patients to have inadequate baseline blood pressure control, and B.   African American patients also    were more likely to have           diuretics prescribed. Source: Racial differences in blood pressure control: potential explanatory factors.

    

Did You Know?

¨ Mental Retardation:  Black children, especially males, are more likely to be diagnosed as mentally retarded, even in wealthier school districts.  This trend also is seen for Native American children.  Southern states comprise three fourths of the states where there is unusually high incidence of Black children assessed as mentally retarded.

 

¨ Women’s Health & History:  In 2005, Our Bodies Ourselves celebrated its 35th birthday and was republished.  It is now, a non-profit organization as well as a book, with a Latina Health Initiative using lay health workers and a project translating the book into languages all over the globe. 

 

¨ Injury Fact Book: The  CDC collects racial and ethnic information on injuries as a step toward developing prevention programs.  American Indians/Alaska Natives are at greatest risk for injuries in home fires.  

 

Health Links on Diversity

Article of the Month

Clancy C.  Highlights and Implications from the findings of the National Healthcare Quality Report and Disparities Report.  Office of Minority Health National Leadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, January 2006.

The National Healthcare Quality Report for 2005 showed an overall quality improvement of 2.8 percent.  Of the  44 “core quality measures for dimensions of health care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness, 23 improved, 19 remained unchanged, and 2 became worse.  There was greatest improvement for conditions where there had been focused efforts to improve, especially due to Medicare quality improvement initiatives.  Measures for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia improved by 9.2 percent.  Overall, the National Healthcare Disparities Report, showed that there were some improvements, with more measures of disparities  narrowing than were widening.    In summary, the Disparities Report indicates that low-income people, regardless of race or ethnicity, experience the greatest health disparities.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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For more information or assistance contact Elaine Evans, Reference Assistant, COM Library, evanse@etsu.edu.

Other Observances in March

March

2006

Employment Assistance Program (EAP)

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