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OMO's Mission The mission of OMO Campaign is to achieve health parity for people of color. We believe that the attainment of highest level of health and quality of life is a basic human and civil right. OMO embraces a vision of healthy communities that respects diverse cultural and spiritual values and empowers all people - individuals and families - in a loving, holistic, healing and compassionate manner. OMO is committed to the development of diverse leadership to build a healthy environment and a prosperous, just and humane society. In order to achieve the fullest health potential of the communities and individuals represented by OMO, the coalition commits to achieve health parity with the best level of health achieved by any group. OMO also believes that there must be parity of health systems through the provision of a sufficient level of delivery of culturally-based, appropriate, comprehensive, holistic, fully-funded, sustainable and community-based services that foster the optimal quality of life. OMO commits further to work to accomplish six goals: achieve universal health care; establish comprehensive health systems; improve cultural, institutional and educational development; improve research and data; achieve empowerment; and develop community leadership.
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Multicultural Action Plan: A Multicultural Action Plan to Achieve Health Parity is a comprehensive agenda designed to assist communities of color to jointly address the elimination of health disparities for all Americans. The Action Plan was developed by more than eighty representatives from this nation's communities of color, gathered together for the first time, in November 2000, to develop a cohesive and unified approach to improving their common health status and well being within the context of developing a national health action agenda. From this, the conference report, Out of Many, One: A Multicultural Action Plan to Achieve Health Parity was developed. This plan provides a strategic path for achieving health parity for communities of color within the next decade. We invite you to read A Multicultural Action Plan to Achieve Health Parity
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CMS Data Task Force: A priority 2008 OMO goal is to address health issues facing all racial and ethnic minorities at the policy level. Collecting accurate data on race, ethnicity and primary language is an essential step toward attaining health parity and equity for people of color. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provide health care for approximately one out of every four persons living in the United States. Agency databases could provide a rich source of information about the agency’s beneficiaries, if data collected were accurate, standardized and complete. This Task force exists to develop and implement strategies to improve the collection and reporting of minority group data, which will be informed by the findings and recommendations of such agencies as the National Academy of Social Insurance (2006), America’s Health Insurance Plans (2006), the National Research Council (2004), the Institute of Medicine (2002), and the Commonwealth Fund (2001), as well as data-related reports prepared by Task Force member organizations. Organizations interested in participating should contact Ruth Perot at rperot@shireinc.org or 202-371-0277, ext 1317.
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Health Parity/Equity Alerts: Pending in Congress are three minority health bills: S.1576, Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act, introduced on June 7, 2007; H.R. 3014, Healthcare Equity and Accountability Act of 2007, introduced on July 12, 2007; and H.R. 3333, introduced on August 2, 2007. Out of Many, One supports passage of legislation in the 110th Congress that will advance the minority health agenda, particularly provisions that will require disaggregated data collection and reporting and will strengthen agencies and programs that are important resources for minority communities. Plan to watch Unnatural Causes/Is Inequality Making Us Sick? This eye-opening special is coming to PBS on March 27, April 3, April 10 and April 17. Check local listings and look for the website launch on March 20, 2008! Just released – Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States – a report supported by OMO and submitted to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in January 2008. The report’s subtitle: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Treatment and Access, The Role of Social and Environmental Determinants of Health and the Responsibility of the State. Contact OMO at 202-371-0277 for more information. |
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