How Healthy Is Your County? On Wednesday, February 17, 2010, The County Health Rankings report was released by the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This report is the first set of reports to rank the overall health of ever county in all 50 states. Each county is ranked [...]
2009 H1N1 Flu and You Brochure Click below for an important brochure from the Centers for Disease Control about the H1N1 flu
A new issue brief from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, “Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care Reform: Achieving Equity in Our Lifetime”, provides an analysis of the disparities provisions in the two bills passed by the Senate and House. Below is the introduction. You can download the entire report here: http://www.jointcenter.org/hpi/sites/all/files/raceethnicityandhealthcarereform.pdf Health care [...]
INCREASING PARTICIPATION OF ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. The more than 16 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across our country havehelped [...]
From the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine: HIV prevalence among African Americans is ten times greater than the prevalence among whites. This racial disparity in HIV prevalence has persisted in the face of both governmental and private actions, involving many billions of dollars, to combat HIV. In the November 2009 [...]
From Families USA Minority Health Initiatives… Earlier this month, the U.S. Census Bureau released the latest data on income, poverty, and health coverage. Our new fact sheet, Health Coverage in Communities of Color: Talking about the New Census Numbers takes a closer look at the latest data and finds that communities of color continue to [...]
“The growth of the Health Equity Movement is reflected by a rising number of government entities (local, state, federal) and organizations explicitly recommending and pursuing health equity. This memo compiles the recommendations for 28 of these efforts and provides a table to illustrate the recommendations from nine of these.”
1. Health Care Reform School By Paul Kleyman Editor’s Note: Seasoned aging and elder issues commentator Paul Kleyman remixes the news–and misinformation–on health care reform as he pronounces “The Boomers are coming!” Many conservative news sources have distorted the stats on Obama’s victory, Kleyman argues, especially when it comes to the assumption of conservatism among [...]
New article on Native Caregivers by OMO Governing Body member Dave Baldridge and OMO Health Data Task Force member Mario Garrett. The article “Family Caregivers Declining for American Indians, Alaska Natives” was published in Aging Today, a publication of the American Society on Aging. See below for an excerpt and click here to read the [...]
From the Opportunity Agenda newsletter The Opportunity Agenda, in collaboration with the Health Policy Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, has released a body of research that explores best practices for integrating maps into health advocacy. The volume, Using Maps to Promote Health Equity, provides research and case studies, while presenting [...]