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Text Box: The Text Box: The Text Box:   Topics of Interest In this Issue Hispanic Heritage Month    9/15—10/15 Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Suicide Prevention Week 4 –10                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    National Allied Health Week, 7—13   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·   · National Marrow Awareness Month · National Allied Health Week, 7—13        

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Text Box: SEPTEMBER QUESTION In many Hispanic cultures sage and trumpet flower are used as folk remedies for which ailment? A.       Diabetes B.       Hypertension C.       Nausea D.       Insomnia   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 September 20.                  Did You Know? ◦     Suicide is more deadly for men, with 4 times more males completing suicide than females although females attempt suicide 3 times more often than do males.  In 2002, suicide rates were highest among Whites and  Native Americans. There are large variations among tribes.     ◦    Many Hispanic cultures have a tradition of lay healers: senora/abuela, yerbero (herbalist), sobador (massage therapist, partera (midwife and healer for young children), and curadero total (lay healer using several kinds of traditional therapies).   ◦     Prostate cancer death rates are declining for all racial and ethnic groups. However, death rates are highest for African American men: in Tennessee the annual age adjusted mortality rates are 74.8/100,000 for African-American men compared with 29.6 for Caucasians.  Asian and Pacific Islander men have the lowest prevalence and death rates for this disease.       

Gay & Lesbian Pride MonthText Box: Health Links on Diversity

Text Box: Article of the Month Jacobs EA et al. Overcoming Language Barriers in Health Care: Costs and Benefits of Interpreter Services.  American Journal of Public Health 2004; 94 (5): 866—9. Summary: The authors assessed the impact of interpreter services on the cost and utilization of  health care services among HMO patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) by measuring  the change in cost of care and delivery of services before and after implementation of interpreter services. The control group was a random sample of 10% of all other eligible members who had received care during the same year. Their findings were that LEP patients who used the interpreter services received significantly more recommended preventive services, made more office visits, and had more prescriptions written and filled compared with the control group. The annual cost of providing interpreter services was estimated at $279 per person per year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               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.    

Text Box:         Our Journeys/Our Stories Portraits of  Latino Achievement - A Virtual Exhibition

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

Adult Immunization Week 9/25—10/1

Respect for the Aged Day (Japan) 15

Childhood Injury Prevention Week, 1—7

Ksamavani (Jain) 18 Day of forgiveness for wrongs committed

Cholesterol Education Month

 

5-A-Day Month

 

Healthy Aging Month

 

Sickle Cell Month

 

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

 
 

Hispanic Heritage

 

Health Status and Determinants of Health of Hispanic Populations Hispanic health course by Baylor College of Medicine, Dept. of Community Medicine

Mexicans & Mexican Americans Health Beliefs & Practices by Charles Kemp, FNP

Asthma & respiratory dysfunction among urban, primarily Hispanic school children

Differences in herbal & dietary supplement use in the Hispanic and non-Hispanic pediatric populations

Prostate Cancer

 

Prostate Cancer—the Public Health Perspective an update by the CDC

Prognostic factors for survival among Caucasian, African-American and Hispanic men with androgen-independent prostate cancer

Ethnic variation in health-related quality of life among low income men with prostate cancer

Tennessee Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan for 2005—08, p. 18—22: Barriers, Strategies, and Goals.

 

Suicide Prevention

 

Be Aware of the Warning Signs + links to suicide fact sheets on some specific populations and educational material in the Spanish language.

Adolescent propensity for depressed mood and help seeking: race and gender differences

Native Americans Launch Suicide Hotline  A suicide prevention initiative by a coalition of community groups and agencies in Minnesota. 

Sex, race/ethnicity and romantic attractions: multiple minority status adolescents and mental health

Tennessee suicide rates How does Tennessee compare with the rest of the nation?

Substance Abuse

 

 

Quick Facts on Alcohol Abuse at the website of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism

Culturally sensitive substance abuse intervention for Hispanic & African American Adolescents: empirical examples from the Alcohol Treatment Targeting Adolescents in Need -(ATTAIN) Program

The epidemiology of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine use among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American and other Latin American eighth grade students in the US: 1991—2002
 

Arts, Cultural, and Health Awareness Events

Changing the Face of Medicine Exhibit and Programs Continue

Get the program schedule

Locations as designated on schedule

Multicultural Expo

9/13

7 PM

Culp Ballroom

Scoop on Service                   Volunteer Opportunities

9/14  10 AM

Borchuck Plaza Front of Sherrod Library

Hispanic Heritage Month Independence Day Celebration

9/15  11 AM

Culp 3rd Floor
Main Meal

Hispanic Music with Brim Leal

9/20  11 AM

Culp Atrium

Movie: Hotel Rwanda

9/20  7 PM

Culp Auditorium

Into the Streets—Opportunities for Community Service

9/24

Call 439 4254

Basler Lecture: How Scotland Changed the World 

9/29  7 PM

Culp Auditorium