Sabemos
An English- Spanish-language communications kit designed to promote awareness of existing positive social norms regarding in-home protection from secondhand smoke.

For the fifth year in a row, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.

 

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. 

The National Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (NTCC) website

http://www.tobacco-cessation.org/news_jan08.htm

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

From CDC

Natioanl Vital Statistics Reports January 2008

Volume 56, Number 10

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.