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Topics of Interest In this Issue

Hispanic Heritage Month  9/15—10/15
Sickle Cell Awareness Month

Cholesterol Education Month

           Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month

 

 

                

                                                  

                                                                                                  

                                               

             

       

       

        National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

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· National Marrow Awareness Month

· National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER QUESTION 

For all groups, lack of health insurance is associated with being more likely to have unmet health care needs. The Commonwealth Fund reported what percentage of adult Hispanics without health insurance at sometime during the past year?

A.   82%

B.   62%

C.   42%

 

Email your response to nwosu@etsu.edu by 4:30 pm by September 25.  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 August   Question: The  male/female ratio in the population is used to determine whether a country has “missing women.” The seven countries with the worst male-to-female sex ratios range, in descending order, from 1.92 to 1.22.    See Table 1 in How gender (in)sensitive are the gender-related indices?

 

Did You Know?

¨ The number of U.S. household residents who speak Spanish at home is about 31 million, 12% of  U.S. household residents 5 years of age and over.  Among those who speak Spanish at home, more than half say they speak English “very well.”  American Factfinder

 

¨ About 1000 babies annually are born in the US with Sickle Cell Disease .  The condition, most common in West and Central Africa, is also present in Portuguese, Spanish, French Corsicans, Sardinians, Sicilians, Italians, Greeks, Turks, Cypriots, Lebanese, Israeli, Saudi Arabian, Kuwaiti, Yemeni, Indian and Sri Lanka populations.  Sickle Cell Disease Assoc. of America

 

 

 

Health Links on Diversity

Article of the Month

Flores G.  Language Barriers to Health Care in the United States.  New England Journal of Medicine 355;3 July 20,2006.  

Flores uses a case study of a child acting as his own interpreter to highlight problems resulting from not using a trained interpreter with patients having limited proficiency in English.  A single misinterpreted phrase can result in misdiagnosis,  inappropriate treatment or patient misunderstanding about medication.   Ad hoc interpreters in contrast to those who are trained, are more likely to make errors that have adverse clinical consequences.  Other limitations of ad hoc interpreters are that they are unlikely to know medical terminology, are untrained in confidentiality issues, may have different priorities from the patient and may actually inhibit discussion of important but sensitive issues as domestic violence, substance, psychiatric illness or sexually transmitted diseases.  The author supports passage of  a California bill that would prohibit funding for organizations that use children younger than 15 as interpreters.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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Other Observances in September

September 

2006

 

Hispanic Heritage Plaza

 

   Enter the Hispanic Heritage Plaza to explore

   the Hispanic/Latino Legacy in the US,

   Which is the preferred

   term— Hispanic or

   Latino? and

   Hispanic Cuisine...