This Just In
November 20, 2009: KAISER Family Foundation Weekly Update
Health Reform and Communities of Color: How might it Affect Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities?
The major bills now pending before Congress include a number of key provisions that could either directly or indirectly have an impact on reducing health disparities affecting racial and ethnic minorities. Racial and ethnic minorities represent only one-third of the total U.S. population, but they comprise more than 50 percent of the nation's uninsured.
November 11, 2009: HHS PRESS RELEASE
SECRETARY SEBELIUS RELEASES NEW REPORT ON HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM AND DIABETES IN AMERICA
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November 2009: NOW AVAILABLE
DIABETES IN BLACK AMERICA:Public Health and Clinical Solutions to a National Crisis
Edited by National Advisory Board Member Leonard Jack, Jr., PhD
About the Alliance
Through grants to five organizations and a National Program Office (Noreen M. Clark, PhD, Director), the Merck Company Foundation will support comprehensive, multi-faceted, community-based programs that address the key factors to reduce disparities and improve health outcomes for people living with diabetes.
The Diabetes Alliance will work to improve communication between patients and health care providers. Effective communication among providers, patients and their family members is a critical component of efforts to promote optimal care outcomes, enhance prevention and management of diabetes and reduce disparities in care.
The Alliance efforts go beyond the clinical setting and will reach people where they spend most of their time and make most of the decisions that affect their health, such as community settings and homes.
