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Minority Men’s Health Disparities Reaching Crisis Proportions
When it comes to health, American men who are non-white and poor are suffering from such a disproportionate burden of serious health problems compared to white males that some public health leaders believe the situa-tion has become a national crisis that will continue to worsen unless urgent interventions are made.
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Two New Studies Paint Bleak Picture of Minority Health in America
Nurses who are familiar with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ national initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health by 2010 are already well aware that accomplishing these goals will be no small task. Now two groundbreaking new reports on...
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New Kidney Disease Detection Guidelines Target Minority Patients
According to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), one in nine adults in the U.S. has chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet most of them are undiagnosed and are not receiving medical treatment.
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One Name, Many Faces
After years of viewing them as a single homogenous group, the health care profession is finally taking a look at the differences between the various Asian American/Pacific Islander populations
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Muscular Dystrophy Research and Prevention Targets Hispanics
A rare form of muscular dystrophy previously thought to affect mostly French Canadians and an ethnic group in Israel known as Bukhara Jews has been discovered in a group of Hispanic families in New Mexico, reports the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
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Successful Breast Cancer Outreach Program Expands to Hmong, Laotian Community
Which is the more effective setting for educating women in minority communities about breast cancer prevention: the sterile, frightening environment of a doctor’s office or clinic, or the comfortable, familiar surroundings of the neighborhood shops and beauty parlors that are a normal part of their everyday lives?
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America’s Cities Promote AIDS Prevention in Minority Communities
In 1998, then-President Clinton challenged the nation to do something about the severe health crisis of HIV/AIDS in racial and ethnic minority communities—and America’s cities and their mayors have risen to that challenge.
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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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Get all the facts about the Minority Health Professions Foundation
One of the Alliance's missions is to raise 'cultural proficiency' among providers. What does the term mean and why is it significant in the medical treatment of Hispanics?
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Ethnicity-Based Vitamins: Breakthrough or Marketing Ploy?
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Where There’s Smoke
Individually and collectively, nurses can play a unique leadership role in reducing tobacco use in minority communities. Here’s how you can get involved.
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Sickle-Cell Pain Management Guidelines at a Glance
For Americans who suffer from sickle-cell disease, which occurs primarily in African Americans and Hispanics of Caribbean ancestry, this incurable, inherited blood disorder is synonymous with extreme pain...
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BiDil Controversy Continues as FDA Approves First “Race-Specific” Drug
Is American health care ready for the first-ever drug targeted specifically to African Americans?
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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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Careers in Rural Minority Health
From the Mississippi Delta to remote Indian reservations, rural communities of color are among the most medically underserved in the nation--and the need for more nurses is especially acute
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Click Here for Cultural Competence
Thanks to the new Culturally Competent Nursing Modules online training program, the skills nurses need to provide care to an increasingly diverse patient population have never been easier to learn--or to teach
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Fighting Childhood Obesity in Minority Communities
The obesity epidemic in children is reaching such crisis proportions that this generation has been labeled "Generation O"-and minority kids are at especially high risk
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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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Sisterhood Is Powerful
The Sister Study, a landmark national study investigating the causes of breast cancer, wants to recruit as racially and ethnically diverse a participant sample as possible. Here’s how nurses can help spread the word.
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Till Death Do Us Part
Compared to their white counterparts, terminally ill Americans of color are much less likely to receive the comfort of hospice care as they near the end of life. By choosing careers in hospice and palliative nursing, minority nurses can play a key role in helping to bridge this gap.
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