Briefing: Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions September 20, 2004

DR. LOUIS W. SULLIVAN: Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions is a detailed look at what this commission has found. Unfortunately, the title of this report is the reality facing our nation. The facts of the US health professions remains separate and unequal is hazardous to our nation’s health. It has been my pleasure to work with 15 fine experts in health, education, law, public policy and other fields who have dedicated their lives over the past 15 months to this effort. We have included leaders from medicine, dentistry and nursing, and have also reached outside of academia and health systems to include members from business, journalism, law and government to ensure a broad representation and thinking. Under charge from the Kellogg Foundation, this commission was formed to develop solutions. The Kellogg Foundation established this commission to be free from any institutional or bureaucratic restraints, and go directly to the public to get a closer look at what was keeping talented minority students away from the health professions. To complete this task, we traveled around the nation, we held six field hearings, we examined dozens of scientific studies and commissioned two papers to help better understand the problem and arrive at realistic solutions. We examined many individuals and organizations

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiac Care: The Weight of the Evidence

A substantial and growing body of research indicates that race/ethnicity -- independent of clinical and socioeconomic factors -- continues to matter in the U.S. health care system. Racial/ethnic background continues to affect access to health care and the quality of care obtained. While the evidence varies for specific conditions and racial/ethnic minority groups, the data are sufficiently compelling to begin undertaking actions to systematically and aggressively eliminate disparities in needed medical care. As major decision-makers in health care, physicians have a key role to play when it comes to addressing disparities in medical care. As a first step in what ultimately must be a multifaceted effort, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are undertaking an initiative to raise physician awareness about disparities in medical care, beginning with cardiac care. This report, developed by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the American College of Cardiology Foundation, assesses the weight of the evidence on racial/ethnic differences in cardiac care

The process of technology transfer to the new biomedical and pharmaceutical firm

Supported by a grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation and by funds from the RCA Corporation.Bibliography: p.24-26.Edward B. Roberts, Oscar Hauptman

Reforming the U.S. Healthcare System

I have heard from countless Tennesseans who have said they simply can't keep up with the rising costs of health insurance. In Tennessee alone, insurance costs have risen 129% for small businesses since 2000, forcing many to cut benefits or stop offering coverage for employees.Bart Gordon, health care reform, healthcare reform, healthcare, health care, Business Roundtable, Kaiser Family Foundation, Tennessee, insurance

The financing threshold effect on success and failure of biomedical and pharmaceutical start-ups

Supported by a grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation and by funds from the RCA Corporation.Bibliography: p.24-26.Edward B. Roberts, Oscar Hauptman

Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: South Dakota’s Medically Uninsured

The status of our nation’s healthcare system has received a considerable amount of attention, particularly over the past two years. One of the most commonly cited areas of concern among stakeholders, such as the Kaiser Foundation, is the number of uninsured individuals nationwide.In 2008, the Kaiser Family Foundation stated that the percentage of employers providing health insurance decreased from 69% to 60% (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 2008). Kaiser cited increasing premiums as a primary cause of health coverage being dropped. The Kaiser Foundation added that the uninsured “are four times more likely to delay or forgo needed care” than are those individuals with insurance (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 2008).The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a website (http://www.cdc.gov/Features/Uninsured/) that summarizes the nation’s uninsured situation. This website reports that the uninsured visit emergency rooms twice as often as those who are insured. In addition, the website reports that data from 2006 indicate that 43.6 million Americans, nearly 15 percent of all Americans, lack health insurance. One source to use to find how those numbers compare with South Dakota’s is the Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE)

Half of all sexually active young people will get an STD before the age of 25. Most will not know it.

GYT campaign youth poster 24x36Get yourself talking.Talk to your partner.Talk to your health care provider.GYT logo with the url www.cdc.gov/gytGYT was launched in April 2009 as an ongoing promotion under It's Your (Sex) Life, a longstanding public information partnership of MTV, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. Supporting partners of GYT include: American College Health Association (ACHA), Kaiser Family Foundation, National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), MTV, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Technical consultation is provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).CDC-INFO Pub ID 221800-- 221800 -

Billions in Motion: Latino Immigrants, Remittances and Banking

Research on how remitters choose the means to send money home, including projections of remittance flows to Mexico and Central America that illustrate the extraordinary growth in recent years and the potential for continued growth and a demographic portrait of Latino remittance senders drawn from the Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation National Survey of Latinos. Study is partially based on a Bendixen survey of Latino immigrants in USA.Remittances, Latino Immigrants, Remittances, Banking, USA Inmigrantes latinos, remesas, banca, EUA

New Orleans Ten Years After The Storm: The Kaiser Family Foundation Katrina Survey Project

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and the subsequent levee failure led to unprecedented destruction in New Orleans, the Kaiser Family Foundation teamed up with NPR to conduct a survey of the city's current residents. This work builds on three previous surveys conducted by the Foundation in 2006, 2008, and 2010, as well as a survey of Katrina evacuees in Houston shelters conducted in partnership with the Washington Post in September 2005. The new survey examines how those who are currently living in Orleans Parish feel about the progress the city has made and the lingering challenges it faces, including those brought about by Katrina and those that pre-date the storm.Overall, the survey paints a portrait of a city whose residents are remarkably optimistic, resilient, and proud of their city's culture. On many fronts, residents' reports of conditions in their own neighborhoods and their evaluations of the city's progress in recovery have improved steadily over the 10-year period since the storm. But in this city where racial disparities in income and employment existed long before Katrina, the survey finds that most of these improvements have been unevenly distributed by race. African Americans continue to lag far behind whites, both in their perceptions of how much progress has been made and in the rates at which they report continuing struggles