4255.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Across the country, public-private community partnerships are developing innovative, locally relevant programs to address disparities in health. These programs are as diverse as the populations they serve-groups like recent immigrants from the Caribbean or Africa, Mexican immigrants in the Southwest, migrant farm workers, and inner-city African-Americans. They can include special interpreter and language services; culturally appropriate preventive educational materials and messages; outreach workers from ethnic communities who understand the barriers to accessing available resources and the need to build trust among minority communities; upstream programs that address the social and economic roots of poor health status; hospital-based programs to work with communities to develop and implement culturally appropriate care protocols. In this session, presenters will share how some of these partnerships address disparities in their very different communities by bringing together providers, public health, social services, government, education, other institutions, and the community itself. After presentations on two approaches, the Community Care Network vision and a consortium of providers working with their local communities, representatives from two communities will present in-depth information on their own programs and their impact on health and well-being among the populations they serve. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) To help participants learn the value and need for partnerships to effectively address racial and ethnic disparities, 2) To present examples of successful programs that can serve as models for participants in their own communities. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Frances Margolin | |||
| Frances Margolin | |||
| Fighting racial and ethnic disparities from the ground up: The essential role of partnerships Frances S. Margolin, MA, Gretchen W. Torres, MPP | |||
| Eliminating disparities through community and hospital partnerships Romana Hasnain Wynia, PhD, Debra Pierce, BA | |||
| Individual, system, and community: Reducing disparities in disease outcomes through a multilevel approach Patrick S. Hughes, EdD | |||
| Safety net responds: Community leaders help institutions find the “hard-to-reach” * R. Maude Guerrier | |||
| Organized by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
| Endorsed by: | Chiropractic Health Care; Latino Caucus; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy | ||