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Providing Culturally Competent Sickle Cell Care
By serving as patient advocates, educating their peers and breaking down cultural barriers, nurses can help sickle cell disease patients overcome pain management disparities and receive more equitable care.
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New Co-Pay Assistance Program Helps Fight Blood Cancer Disparities
Because blood cancer medicines are expensive, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has launched a new program to help myeloma patients who are having trouble affording their prescriptions
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Preventing Premature Birth Disparities
How nurses can address the growing crisis of high preterm birth rates in minority women and help give infants of all colors an equal chance for a healthy start in life
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Putting Minority Health into Health Reform
Health reform efforts must focus not just on insurance coverage but on closing the gap of unequal health outcomes between Americans of color and their white counterparts.
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Hispanic Health Information Is Just a Phone Call Away
Hispanics continue to face substantial health disparities, including underinsurance, a lack of linguistically and culturally competent health care providers, and disproportionately high rates of serious chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer and HIV/AIDS.
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African Americans Missing Out on Stroke Treatment
African-American men and women, who are at a greater risk for strokes and are more likely to die from them than any other racial or ethnic group, face a racial gap in receiving new stroke treatments, according to studies by the American Heart Association.
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New Health Disparities Database Focuses on Solutions, Not Statistics
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Taking the Initiative
By breaking down cultural barriers to health care and providing preventive education, nurses of color are helping to close minority health disparity gaps one patient at a time.
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Star Power
Whether they’re identifying barriers to mental health care or developing interventions for preventing cancer, AIDS and heart disease, these Emerging Nursing Stars in Health Disparities Research are helping to create a healthier future for Americans of color
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Minority Children’s Health Gets Poor Report Card
In the year 2000, 86% of Caucasian children in the U.S. were reported by their parents to be in excellent or very good health, compared to only 75% of Hispanic children and 74% of African-American children.
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Is Healthy People 2010 Ignoring Hispanics?
The ambitious goal of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Healthy People 2010 program is to ensure good health and long life for all Americans...
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Get All the Facts About the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is a division of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCMHD was established by the United States Congress through the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act of 2000 to promote equality in health outcomes for all citizens through research and education.
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Health Disparities Research, Caribbean Style
With the support of a landmark federal grant, nurses at the University of the Virgin Islands are gearing up to confront this U.S. territory’s unique health disparities challenges
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Lieberman Introduces Incentive-Based Health Disparities Legislation
FairCare, an initiative of Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), calls for the medical community to establish quantifiable standards of treatment for all patients, to help ensure fairness and consistency of care. But even more important, FairCare would offer financial incentives to providers who show a commitment to leveling the health care playing field.
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Tools for Closing the Immunizations Gap
Immunization against infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, hepatitis, pneumonia and influenza is one of the 10 Leading Health Indicators in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 national prevention agenda--and also one of the six focus areas of HHS’ Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health.
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The Power of Partnerships
Two nursing schools’ collaborative project to cultivate the next generation of minority nurse scientists has become a highly praised national model for researching solutions to health disparities
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Teaching Nursing Students About Minority Health Disparities
When your students graduate and go out into the world, will they be ready, willing and able to join the fight against racial and ethnic health inequities? Here’s what some nursing educators are doing to make sure their students are prepared.
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Trialblazers
An innovative new program in Columbus, Ohio, is focusing aggressively on eliminating racial and ethnic cancer disparities--with a special emphasis on increasing minority patients’ participation in clinical trials
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Closing the Cardiovascular Disease Gap
Experts agree that culturally competent preventive education can play a key role in reducing CVD disparities in minority communities. And who better to provide that education than nurses?
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Majoring in Minority Health
Not so long ago, topics like minority health disparities and serving the needs of diverse patient populations were rarely taught in nursing classrooms. Today, a growing number of nursing schools are not only incorporating minority health into their curricula, they’re building whole degree programs around it.
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