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Towards Health Equity

February 08, 2012

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Towards Health Equity

Provided by the Office of Minority Health Resource Center

February 8, 2012

April Is National Minority Health Month

April Is National Minority Health Month

Theme: Health Equity Can't Wait. Act Now in Your

CommUNITY!

Stop bullying now! Youth violence prevention

Donate the gift of life. Organ donation promotion

Walk it off. Obesity prevention

Watch your mouth! Oral health promotion

April 2012 marks the first anniversary of the launch of the HHS Action Plan to

Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities and the National Stakeholder

Strategy for Achieving Health Equity.

To celebrate this anniversary, let's highlight the work of our communities:

Monday April 2, 2012 - Health Equity Day of UNITY

Organize a Town Hall in your community:

HHS Action Plan - A Year on the Road to Health Equity

Saturday, April 21, 2012 - Health Equity Day of Action

Organize a Youth Festival:

Young. Healthy. YouNITED!

Check out the Black History Makers in Health

Check out the Black History Makers in Health February is Black History Month.

Visit our site daily to learn about one of the Black History Makers in Health:

inventors, surgeons, policy makers, public health advocates, and more. If you are

alive today, these people have touched your life. Come honor them!

Vaccine Website now available in Spanish

Vaccine Website now available in Spanish

Vaccines.gov, an HHS website that brings together the best in plain language

resources on vaccine and immunizations is now available in Spanish. The site

offers the latest vaccine recommendations, easy-to-read immunization

schedules, and tools on where to find affordable vaccines. Visit Vaccines.gov in

Spanish.

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Are Americans Aware of Racial and Ethnic Health

Disparities?

Are Americans Aware of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities?

In This Newsletter ...

April Is National Minority

Health Month

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History Makers in Health

Vaccine Website now

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Are Americans Aware of

Racial and Ethnic Health

Disparities?

HHS Launches First

Consumer Health IT Video

Challenge of 2012

OMH Disparities

Reductions Efforts

Research Corner

Southern California

Preconception Peer

Educators Conference

SAVE THE DATE 2012

Summit

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Catalog Online

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leader!

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Only modestly, it seems. Read the article Awareness of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Has Improved Only

Modestly over a Decade . Also, Awareness of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Study Brief [PDF | 112KB]

2010 General Population [PDF | 257KB]

2009 General Population [PDF | 254KB]

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HHS Launches First Consumer Health IT Video Challenge of 2012

HHS Launches First Consumer Health IT Video Challenge of 2012

The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced a nationwide, open call for entries in

the Healthy New Year Video Challenge, highlighting personal stories of patients and families using health

technology to improve health.

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OMH Disparities Reduction Efforts

Learn about OMH Disparities Reduction Efforts

See how the work of the Office of Minority Health lines up with the goals of the HHS Action Plan to Reduce

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. How are your efforts lining up? Share your story.

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Research Corner

Research Corner: Glaucoma

Differences in Rates of Glaucoma among Asian Americans and Other Racial Groups, and among Various Asian

Ethnic Groups. Joshua D. Stein MD, MS, , Denise S. Kim BS, Leslie M. Niziol MS, Nidhi Talwar MS, Bin Nan PhD,

David C. Musch PhD, MPH, Julia E. Richards PhD. Ophthalmology. V. 118, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 1031-1037

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161642010011000

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adherence to Glaucoma Follow-up Visits in a County Hospital Population.

Yohko Murakami, MD, MA; Bradford W. Lee, MD, MSc; Martin Duncan, BA; Andrew Kao, MD; Jehn-Yu Huang,

MD;Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH; Shan C. Lin, MD. Arch Ophthalmol. 2011;129(7):872-878.

http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/129/7/872

The Direction of Research into Visual Disability and Quality of Life in Glaucoma. Fiona C Glen, David P Crabb

and David F Garway-Heath. BMC Ophthalmology. 2011, 11:19

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2415/11/19

Natural History of Glaucoma. Ying Pan and Rohit Varma. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2011 January; 59(Suppl1): S19-

S23.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038509/

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Southern California Preconception Peer Educators Conference

Southern California Preconception Peer Educators Conference

Preconception Peer Educator students from California State University, Northridge, and the other PPEs sites in

Southern California are getting together to bring attention to the issues of infant mortality and maternal and

child health. They will also share how you can bring the PPE Program to your campus. Dr. Flojaune Griffin, the

Preconception Health Coordinator for California, will be this year's guest speaker.

February 18, 2012, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

California State University, Northridge. Northridge, CA.

Contact: ppe@my.csun.edu

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SAVE THE DATE 2012 Summit: Science of Eliminating Health Disparities

SAVE THE DATE 2012 Summit: Science of Eliminating Health Disparities

Integrating Science, Policy and Practice

Building a Healthier Society

The 2012 Summit will be held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor,

Maryland, on October 31 - November 3, 2012.

Contact: 2012summit@mail.nih.gov

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New! Search OMH Library Catalog Online

New! Search OMH Library Catalog Online

OMH has launched a new online catalog search tool. Now you can find books, reports, journals, media, articles,

and organizations related to the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations. Contact the Knowledge

Center if you need guidance on searching the content. Start searching.

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Be a follower, to be a leader!

Be a follower, to be a leader!

Follow Us: @MinorityHealth

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