sábado, 30 de abril de 2011

Today's Topics In Health Disparities: HHS' Action Plan to Reduce Health Disparities - Kaiser Family Foundation

AHRQ Director Participates in Kaiser Family Foundation Webcast on Health Disparities


AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. participated in a live, interactive Webcast on issues relating to health and health care disparities in the United States hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The examined the new Department of Health and Human Services’ Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. In addition to Dr. Clancy, expert panelists on the Today's Topics in Health Disparities Webcast were Garth Graham, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, and Herbert Smitherman, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Dean of Community and Urban Health, and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and President and CEO, Health Centers Detroit Foundation, Inc. The program addressed the contents of the strategy and its timeline for implementation as well as its implications for providers. The panelists also discussed how the new strategy relates to other recently released HHS strategies including the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy, the Healthy People 2020 initiative and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. Panelists also considered what the strategy’s role as it relates to health reform implementation


http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/todaystopics_hhs_042111.cfm

Today's Topics In Health Disparities: HHS' Action Plan to Reduce Health Disparities
On Monday, April 25, 2011 Today's Topics in Health Disparities webcast examined the new Department of Health and Human Services’ Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

The program addressed the contents of the strategy and its timeline for implementation as well as its implications for providers. The panelists also discussed how the new strategy relates to other recently released HHS strategies including the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy, the Healthy People 2020 initiative and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. Panelists also considered what the strategy’s role as it relates to health reform implementation.

Today's Topics In Health Disparities: HHS' Action Plan to Reduce Health Disparities - Kaiser Family Foundation

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