4187.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
| |||
| One of the principal objectives of Healthy People 2010, the national policy on health promotion and disease prevention, is the elimination of health disparities. To achieve this objective, attention typically is focused on a broad range of prevention and intervention strategies including access to care, behavior modification, health information and education. Attention is also focused on understanding some of the genetic underpinnings of health and ill health, and on improvements through a variety of pharmaceutical interventions. By themselves these interventions cannot narrow the racial gap in health outcomes. A number of social, economic and environmental factors must be addressed, if progress is to be made in eliminating racial disparities in the ensuing decades. These factors are the primary focus of this session. Leaders and practitioners in the field of health, housing, economic development, politics, eradication of poverty, employment and social justice will discuss research and developments in these fields with an emphasis on how they relate to health status and condition in low income and minority communities--urban and rural. For example an analysis of recent census data suggest that poverty is no longer concentrated in urban centers but is more dispersed. What are the implications for programs designed to eliminate health disparities. Similar questions can be raised about unemployment caused by downturns in the economy. These are not new topics, but developments in the 21st century are giving them new dimensions which will be explored in this session. | |||
| Learning Objectives: To explore the implications of social, environmental and economic factors associated with ill health for programs designed to eliminate health disparities. | |||
| Danny K. Davis, MPH Donna M Christian-Christensen, D/VI Angela Gilliard Vickie M. Mays, PhD, MSPH | |||
| Jamila Rashid, PhD, MPH | |||
| Bailus Walker, PhD,, MPH | |||
| Organized by: | Black Caucus of Health Workers | ||
| Endorsed by: | Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Chiropractic Health Care; Epidemiology; Labor Caucus; Spirit of 1848 Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | Pharmacy | ||