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HRET Disparities Toolkit

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A Toolkit for Collecting Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language Information from Patients:  The Toolkit is a Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients. 

Evidence Supports Nurse-Delivered Smoking Interventions, Researchers Suggest

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Evidence Supports Nurse-Delivered Smoking Interventions, Researchers Suggest

Jan 24, 2008

A meta-analysis published this month in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews suggests that nurse-delivered tobacco cessation counseling is effective in helping patients quit smoking, United Press International reports. To evaluate the efficacy of various smoking interventions, researchers from Wayne State University College of Nursing assessed data from 42 randomized clinical trials involving a total of more than 15,000 patients. In 31 studies comparing nurse-led interventions with a control or conventional care, nurse involvement was associated with a significant increase in the likelihood that participants would quit smoking, particularly when the counseling was delivered in a hospital setting. Only 3 percent of patients given no intervention were able to quit smoking, compared with between 15 percent and 20 percent of those guided by nurses. While the lead study author acknowledges that nurses already have heavy workloads, she suggests that an investment in smoking cessation interventions could head off future health complications and "reduce [nurses'] workload" in the long run (United Press International, 1/23/08; Rice and Stead, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1/23/08 [subscription required]).

http://www.rwjf.org/programareas/features/digest.jsp?c=EMC-ND141&pid=1141&id=7114

 

2008 Aetna Foundation Regional Community Health Grants Program

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2008 Aetna Foundation Regional Community Health Grants Program

Application deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis.
This program provides funding focused on reducing disparities in health care among racial and ethnic populations in eligible geographic areas. Community-based initiatives that increase access to quality health care and improve overall wellness in obesity and depression; Health professions training and support programs to address one or more of the listed challenges within the U.S. health care delivery system.

http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=777

Kresge Foundation’s Fourth Quarter Grants of Nearly $50 Million

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The Kresge Foundation's fourth quarter grantmaking reflects its new emphasis on a recently articulated set of values: advancing low-income opportunity, promoting community impact in ways most needed by residents, encouraging innovation and risk taking, fostering interdisciplinary solutions, advancing ecological sustainability, and valuing diversity in board governance.

 

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THE KRESGE FOUNDATION: Stronger Non Profits. Stronger Communities

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The Kresge Foundation is a $3.9 billion private foundation that supports communities in the United States and around the world by strengthening the nonprofit organizations that serve them.

The foundation was established by Sebastian Spering Kresge in 1924 “for the promotion of human progress.” With an initial gift of $1.6 million, he launched what would become one of the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations. Over the years, the Kresge Foundation has helped build the nation’s nonprofit infrastructure – libraries, community centers, schools, hospitals, art museums, food banks and countless other facilities.

Be A Bridge: Navigational Matrix - A Presentation by Jerry Johnson, MD

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Be A Bridge: Navigational Matrix
Identifying Tobacco Control Programs and Materials
Jerry Johnson, MD
Co-project Director, Be a Bridge
Professor of Medicine, Univ. of PA

Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs---2007 OSH CDC

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CDC's Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2007 is an evidence-based guide to help states plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use.This document updates Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, August 1999. This updated edition describes an integrated programmatic structure for implementing interventions proven to be effective and provides the recommended level of state investment to reach these goals and reduce tobacco use in each state.

6th National Conference On: Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations Partnerships for the Future

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This conference, which has been held biennially since 1998, is one of the most respected and well-supported conferences on cultural competence and health disparities reduction in the United States. Co-produced by Drexel University School of Public Health's Center for Health Equality, Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care, and the USDHHS Office of Minority Health, this meeting attracts over 600 attendees from North America and around the world. It features over 150 presentations during pre-conference intensive training sessions, plenary panels, roundtable sessions, concurrent workshops, a film festival and a resource center with exhibits and poster presentations. The theme for the Sixth National Conference will be "Partnerships for the future: Supporting practitioners and advancing the field through innovation, policy and research." Please visit http://www.DiversityRxConference.org/ for more information about the conference, including agendas and presentation abstracts from previous years. The Call for Presentation Proposals will be posted on the website on December 15 with a submission deadline of January 31, 2008.

 

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