Posts Tagged ‘Health’

World AIDS Day 2010: Victory and voice

World AIDS Day 2010: Victory and voice
James was a man of small stature, but with much pizazz.  He would come into the record store where I worked during undergrad to check the billboard charts once a week and purchase a few records here and there.  He became my friend somewhere through mid to late nineties contemporary rhythm and blues. ...
December 2nd, 2010 | Featured, Health | Read More

“Docs or Cops?” Domestic violence is a public health issue in Indian Country

“Docs or Cops?” Domestic violence is a public health issue in Indian Country
WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s trite to say, “everything is connected.” It’s a phrase that comes up in the context of family, the environment, or perhaps, philosophy. When the subject is reservation violence, however, that same notion could be rewritten as a blunt question: Docs or cops? Cops are...
August 3rd, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Health | Read More

Beyond good and evil: Blacks, ethics and the health care system

Beyond good and evil: Blacks, ethics and the health care system
“If we want our study samples to be broadly representative, then we should make every effort to make our institutions equally representative by increasing the presence of minority clinicians, scientists and members of research teams and institutional review boards. If we want minority communities...
June 25th, 2010 | Featured, Health | Read More

Expanding access to oral health through innovation

Expanding access to oral health through innovation
A philosophical question: How much medical training is needed to treat patients? Some say it’s the full course as proscribed by existing medical, nursing or dental schools. But when the shortages of doctors, nurses and dentists are ginormous, does the need require a different answer? Consider oral...
June 22nd, 2010 | American Indians, Health | Read More

Multiple Sclerosis is incurable, but science is getting closer solving it

Multiple Sclerosis is incurable, but science is getting closer solving it
It contributed to the death of the black comedian, Richard Pryor. Actresses Annette Funicello, formerly of the Mickey Mouse Club and Beach Blanket movies, and Terri Garr, Young Frankenstein and many other movies, have it. It is the debilitating and incurable disease known as Multiple Sclerosis (MS). As...
June 22nd, 2010 | American Indians, Health | Read More

The unsung heroes of workplace safety

The unsung heroes of workplace safety
By Cheryl Staats, Research Assistant at the Kirwan Institute In the midst of the uproar surrounding comprehensive immigration reform and the devastating new law in Arizona that seemingly legalizes racial profiling, immigrants and their advocates and organizers are shouldering the strains of these significant...
May 14th, 2010 | Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice | Read More

Measuring the progress in native health – life expectancy for Native Americans

Measuring the progress in native health – life expectancy for Native Americans
Has the Indian Health Service been an effective, government-run delivery system? Consider this from a White House memo: “While there has been improvements in health status of Indians in the past 15 years, a loss of momentum can further slow the already sluggish rate of approach to parity. Increased...
May 4th, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Health | Read More

Race-ing the gap between good health care coverage and great health

Race-ing the gap between good health care coverage and great health
The recently passed health care reform bill, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will do much to support the health of people of color, not least through its expansion of Medicaid coverage to the near-poor and to childless adults mostly excluded from coverage previously. Businesses...
April 7th, 2010 | Featured, Health | Read More
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