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News and Thought about Reducing Health Disparities. - links for 2008-11-19
Payment Hassles, Not Just Stinginess, Turn Doctors Off Medicaid As Democrats in Congress consider covering more of the uninsured kids by expanding Medicaid, they may want to consider this: Fewer doctors are accepting Medicaid patients not just because fees are so low, but because it often takes months to... - Voices Against The Silence Award
Marilyn Alejandro-Rodriguez, Research Project Coordinator at the Center for Reducing Health Disparities, will be receiving a 2008 Voices Against The Silence Award at The City Club of Cleveland on Friday December 5th. This award recognizes individuals and organizations who make a difference in the HIV/AIDS community in northeast Ohio. Marilyn... - links for 2008-11-17
Leaders slam appalling state of Maori health The latest life expectancy figures released by Statistics New Zealand show that a newborn non- Maori girl can expect to live more than than 12 years longer than a Maori boy born on the same day, based on current death rates. Gap... - Disparities in the quality of hospital food
It seems that the funding system for health care in the UK has lead to disparities in the type and quality of hospital food. From the Mirror: In certain parts of the country, patients are tucking into tasty chicken chasseur and beef madras to aid their road to recovery. But... - links for 2008-11-14
California considers capping enrollment in poor children's health program State officials are considering capping enrollment in California's health insurance program for children of the working poor, as an influx of new clients overwhelms it. Chronically Ill U.S. Patients Often Skip Care Due to Costs Chronically ill patients in the... - links for 2008-11-13
Stark disparities in states for preemie births The odds of having a premature baby are lowest in Vermont and highest in Mississippi. The March of Dimes mapped the stark state-by-state disparities in a new "report card."... - Health and Educational Disparities in Autism: A Call for Action
Just a reminder that tomorrow Nabil El-Ghoroury, PhD, Pediatric Psychologist at MetroHealth Medical Center and Senior Instructor in Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University will present, Health and Educational Disparities in Autism: A Call for Action. The lecture will take place on November 14 from 3:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.... - links for 2008-11-12
Doctors Study Repatriation of Uninsured The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates voted Monday to undertake a study of the repatriation of uninsured immigrant patients by hospitals, a practice that has been examined by The New York Times in two recent reports. Senator Takes Initiative on Health Care Without... - links for 2008-11-11
General Motors Retirees Struggle With Loss of Health Coverage As General Motors faces a liquidity crisis many of the company’s retirees are trying to navigate Medicare and plan for their own finances in the wake of the company’s decision to drop its lifetime health coverage for some 100,000 white-collar... - links for 2008-11-10
Ohio Health Policy Review: Analysis: 15 million in U.S. could be added to Medicaid, SCHIP Analysts estimate that 15 million people could gain access to Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program because of federal policy changes likely to be enacted in the coming months (Source: "Health Insurers... - links for 2008-11-07
Despite Democratic control, major health reform still unlikely Robert Laszewski expects the new President and Congress to keep their health care promise by starting incrementally to insure more Americans. Hospitals Seeing Decline in Paying Patients In a sign of the economy’s toll on the health care system, some hospitals... - links for 2008-11-06
Doctors no longer control the quality of health care in the United States We, as doctors, must swallow hard and admit that we do not control the quality and value of health care any longer - and it has been a long time since we did. Recent Trends in... - Insurance status and treatment in the ER
From Newsweek.com: ...[Adil] Haider and his colleagues analyzed almost 430,000 moderate to severe cases of traumatic injury (from auto accidents, gunshots and other causes) treated between 2001 and 2005. Controlling for age, gender, type and severity of injury, they found that, overall, uninsured patients were 50 percent more likely to... - links for 2008-11-04
Income gap and economic disparity worsens in Canada under Conservative Party policies The internationally respected Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development recently threw out a warning flag to Canada. It says the income gap between Canada’s rich and poor is growing faster than most of the other 30 developed... - Health and Educational Disparities in Autism: A Call for Action
The Center for Reducing Health Disparities along with the Cleveland State Center for Health Equity will host Nabil El-Ghoroury, PhD, Pediatric Psychologist at MetroHealth Medical Center and Senior Instructor in Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. The title of his talk will be Health and Educational Disparities in Autism: A... - links for 2008-10-31
Racial And Ethnic Disparities Detected In Patient Experiences A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients. The findings suggest that while all doctors should be attentive to differences in... - links for 2008-10-30
Arizona's Proposition 101 Would Block Universal Health Coverage Opponents say the measure could have unintended consequences, including driving up Medicaid costs. Supporters say it will keep the state from encroaching on the private sector. China AIDS patients dying because of tragic stigma Chinese AIDS victims are dying needlessly because... - links for 2008-10-29
Citizenship often determines who gets medical care Roughly 2,000 times over the last 17 years, Marguerita Toribio, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has climbed into a cushioned recliner for the three-hour dialysis treatment that keeps her alive. Cigna Rolls Out Posh Health Plans for Individuals and Small Businesses The... - Who pays for the care of illegal immigrants?
A recent latimes.com story chronicles the disparity in access to health care for some illegal immigrants. The kidney failed when [Marguerita Toribio] briefly moved to North Carolina, which refused to pay for her anti-rejection drugs. She needed to go back on dialysis three days a week to clear toxins from... - links for 2008-10-24
Ontario deficit slows health plans Faced with a projected $500-million deficit this coming year, Ontario's finance minister announced that it will slow down the hiring of 9,000 nurses in order to save $50 million. Aspiring filmmakers tackle healthcare woes "The Cure," written and directed by student Anthony Onah. It's... - links for 2008-10-23
A Tale of Three Cities: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Premature Mortality in the District of Columbia Violent deaths among blacks in the nation’s capital have become a public health epidemic, with murder ranking as the leading cause of years of potential life lost for black men in D.C.,... - links for 2008-10-22
Breast cancer deaths for Chicago blacks double that of whites, data show In 1980, black women and white women in Chicago with breast cancer were equally likely to die. Since then, death rates for white patients have improved dramatically. But that is not the case for their African-American counterparts,... -
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