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Text Box: TheText Box: TheText Box: Topics of Interest In this Issue American Indian Heritage and Health Diabetes Month Marrow Awareness Month Allied Health Week 11/5—11                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      National Allied Health Week, 7—13   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   · National Marrow Awareness Month · National Allied Health Week, 7—13        

Text Box: NOVEMBER QUESTION  The Indian Health Service reported this increase in prevalence of type 2 diabetes among children and young people, < 35 years old, from 1990 to  2002: A.   132% increase B.     82% increase C.     52% increase   Email your response to nwosu@etsu.edu by 4:30 pm by November 20.  The answer is found in a link  in this month’s newsletter.  A prize will be awarded to one winner, selected at random among those who submit the correct answer.    Answer to the October    Question: Childhood dental caries are a   common chronic health condition  among children from poor families.  Data from the National Health and Nutritional Survey found racial and ethnic disparities, with 16% Mexican-American, 9% Black, and 4% White children had C. 6 or more decayed surfaces.  Disparities in Early Childhood Caries   Did You Know?   ¨ American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.3 times more likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites of similar age. ¨ Approximately 4.3 million people claim heritage as American Indian or Alaska Native.  Of that group, 2.4 million report only American Indian or Alaska Native as their race. ¨ About 64% of American Indians/Native Alaskans live outside of a reservation or American Indian Area (AIA).    

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Text Box: Article of the Month Trivedi AN, Zaslavsky AM, Schneider EC, Ayanian JZ.  Relationship Between Quality of Care and Racial Disparities in Medicare Health Plans.  JAMA   October 25, 2006; 296 (16): 1998—2004.  This study assessed the variations among 151 Medicare health plans in both overall quality and racial disparity.  Outcome measures studied were specific levels for hemoglobin A1c, and cholesterol, as designated for enrollees with and without diabetes and for those who had had a coronary event.   Blood pressure measure was designated for those with hypertension.  The clinical performance was 6.8% - 14.4 % lower for black enrollees than for white enrollees.  About 70% of the disparity was for black and white enrollees within the same health plan.  Correlations between overall quality and racial disparity were small and not statistically significant.  There was only one health plan that ranked both high quality and low disparity on more than one measure.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              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.    

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Text Box: November Newsletter References  For more information or assistance contact Elaine Evans, Reference Assistant, COM Library, evans@etsu.edu               For more information or assistance contact Elaine Evans, Reference Assistant, COM Library, evanse@etsu.edu.

Text Box: Other Observances in November  

Text Box: NOVEMBER  2006

Text Box:   Explore the   Cherokee   heritage in nearby NC, TN   communities, and the Qualla   Boundary      

Arts, Cultural, and Health Awareness Activities

Belly Dance Lessons

11/1, 8, 15, 29

CPA Aerobics Rm

The Human Race Machine

11/6—10

Culp Atrium

Veterans’ Day Ceremony

11/9
11 AM

VAMC Hospital Atrium

Veterans’ Day Wreath Ceremony

11/9
9:15 AM

Flagpole outside Broooks Gym

International Education Week

11/13– 17

Across Campus

ETSU Library Associates Book Discussion

11/13
5:30 PM

Sherrod 409

ETSU China Summer Abroad

11/13
7:00 PM

Brown Aud.

What Does Nutrition Have to Do with Cancer Anyway?

11/14

12 PM

E. Tennessee Rm.

The Greatest Challenge for Global Health in 2006

11/14
7 PM

Brown Aud.

WRC Book Review Group

11/15

12 PM

WRC—Pan Hellenic Center Basement

Meat, Meat-Cooking Carcinogens and Cancer

11/16

7 :30 PM

Stanton Gerber

Exec. Aud.

Hunger Banquet

11/16

6—8 PM

Ballroom Right

ETSU Theater: 

Macbeth

11/16, 17

7:30 PM

Memorial Theatre, VAMC

ETSU Wind Ensemble

11/16

7 PM

Science Hill Aud.

Jazz at the Millennium

11/18

7:30 PM

Millennium Park

Admission
 

American Indian/Native Alaskan Heritage (AI/AN)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indian School Hospitals Under the Office of Indian Affairs  This online exhibit by the National Library of Medicine records the removal of American Indian children from their communities in the late 19th century to get them to adopt white culture.  Explore the health conditions in those boarding schools.   

 

In Detroit, Indians File Suit over Health Care  What is their complaint?  Why is health care delivered on the reservations not relevant to this suit?

 

Best Practices from the Special Diabetes Program for Indians – 14 Indian best practices were developed with Indian leaders and health professionals working with Indian populations.  What cultural issues are addressed in this targeted health initiative?  

 

We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States  Census Special Reports  - demographic data in this 2006 report capture tribal, age, educational, income and household information about the US AI/AN population. 

 

Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children, with Special Emphasis on American Indian and Alaska Native Children– what are some criteria to be in place before embarking on population-based screening for diabetes?  Why are criteria necessary? What cultural issues may need to be addressed with the patient’s family?

Allied Health Professions  

 

Where’s the diversity?  - How can increasing the diversity of the allied health workforce assist non-minority professionals increase their effectiveness?  

A health professional students’ cultural competence and attitudes toward the poor: the influence of a clinical practicum supported by the National Health Service Corps— Can a clinical practicum in a practice serving the poor impact the attitudes of students training for varied allied health professions? 

Marrow Awareness

 

Creating More Marrow Matches Through recruitment of Potential Donors with Diverse Tissue Types  Why is a diverse pool of donors so important?

African Americans and Bone Marrow Transplants—  What aspects of this presentation target a particular racial/ethnic group?  What are other possible variables that might be incorporated to reach out to this or another specific racial/ethnic group?

Ethnic differences in donation-related characteristics among potential hematopoietic stem cell donors This research comparing the attitudes and outlook of potential donors found some significant racial and ethnic differences.  Why would it be useful to know about those differences?

 

Diabetes     

 

 

Racial/Ethnic and social class differences in preventive care practices among persons with diabetes— How were ethnicity, class and insurance status associated with receiving preventive care in a population of diabetics?  

Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin– how diverse were the participants in these clinical trials?  

Implementation of case management to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in the Stanford and San Mateo Heart to Heart randomized controlled trial: study protocol and baseline characteristics— Emphasis in this study is on 10 year CHD risk rather than simply diabetes control.  What are implications of the study design  in consideration of health disparities?

 

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 1   Mexico, Portugal

 

All Saints Day 1  Christian

 

Radiologic Technology Week  5—11

 

Allied Health Week 5—11

 

 Veteran’s Day   11  USA,

 France

 

 

 

 

World Kindness Day    13

 

Thanksgiving   23 USA

 

Great American Smokeout

 

Hospice Month

 

Prematurity Awareness Month

 

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness
Month