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War on Health Disparities Gets New Battlefront: The Workplace
America’s team of doctors, nurses, researchers, epidemiologists and other health care professionals working to reduce long-standing disparities in health outcomes between majority and minority populations is about to be joined by an unusual new player: corporate employers.
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What’s New in Diabetes Management
Diabetes is one of the six critical health problems targeted in the federal government’s Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. If you’re a nurse who is actively engaged in the battle to “close the diabetes gap,” here’s a roundup of some new diabetes management resources you may want to add to your arsenal.
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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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Multicultural Diabetes Prevention Campaign Offers Resources for Nurses
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a federally funded program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently created Small Steps, Big Rewards, billed as the first-ever national multicultural diabetes prevention campaign designed specifically to reach diverse populations that have the highest risk of developing the disease.
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Immunization Disparities Gap Finally Starting to Close
The results of a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published earlier this year reveal that there may finally be some light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to reducing at least one key minority health disparity: higher rates of pneumonia and meningitis in African-American children than in their Caucasian counterparts.
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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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EXCEEDing the Standard
The federally funded EXCEED program is taking minority health disparities research to the next level--by turning information into intervention
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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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Closing the Infant Mortality Gap
How nurses can play a leadership role in helping to eliminate one of the most tragic of racial and ethnic health disparities.
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Keeping Secrets Close to the Breast
Many Americans of color are reluctant to reveal information about their family health histories, even to their closest loved ones. Minority nurses can play an important role in helping to break the cycle of secrecy.
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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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The Feminization of AIDS: Why Our Sisters are Suffering
A nursing student reflects on the crisis of rising HIV and AIDS rates among African American women.
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Nurses vs. HIV/AIDS Disparities: Interventions that Work
In part one of an exclusive two-part series, we showcase the innovative work of minority nurses who are creating successful solutions for improving HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in communities of color.
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Nurses vs. HIV/AIDS Disparities: Creating Culturally Competent Interventions
In the conclusion of an exclusive two-part series, we examine the wide variety of resources available to help nurses develop their own culturally targeted solutions for addressing HIV/AIDS disparities in specific minority populations
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Culturally Sensitive Dementia Care
From raising community awareness to providing one-on-one patient interventions and multicultural support services, nurses of color can play a crucial role in easing the disproportionately high burden of Alzheimer's disease in minority populations.
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Using Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Minority Health Outcomes
With its emphasis on providing patients with the best possible care based on current best evidence from clinical research, evidence-based practice can be a powerful tool for closing the gap of racial and ethnic health disparities.
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