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Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-based health program in the country. It provides medical, dental, behavioral, preventive and community-based health services to 27,000 students in 65 Bronx public schools more than 70,000 times a…
Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improve access to healthier foods in Albany's South End neighborhood. Physicians established a farmers' market in this urban neighborhood to provide locally grown produce and information about…
The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is the first to employ pre-post intervention assessment of system-wide diversity and cultural competence change initiatives. The project emphasized collaboration between researchers and professionals to…
In a this video, leaders from CHRISTUS Health provide an overview of the Equity of Care initiative, including the importance of eliminating health care disparities and key action areas for eliminating these disparities. These action areas include increasing the collection and use of race, ethnic…
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many advantages: workforce that more accurate represents US population; minority health professionals are more likely to work in medically underserved areas; and as a strategy toward eliminating health…
In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, received a federal grant to specifically address racial and ethnic health disparities by increasing the adoption and implementation of the The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically…
African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United States. In the Washington, D.C. area, African-born individuals represent 11 percent of the total population, making the District one of the largest metropolitan areas for African residence in the United…
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, aims to address health disparities by enhancing the diversity of the U.S. health care workforce to be more reflective of communities of color. High school students are exposed to a service learning…
The growing undergraduate public health movement in the nation is exciting; yet, concerns linger over the persistently inadequate numbers of racial and/or ethnic minority public health practitioners. Numerous studies have shown racial and ethnic minority health professionals are more likely to work…