Table of Contents- Section I. Dated events, trainings, meetings
Section II. Announcements, Research
Section I. Dated events, trainings, meetings
Date Location
3) Rising Above & Living Well: Cancer Beyond Diagnosis 12/1 Hartford
4) Second Annual Health Literacy conference ‘Towards a Culture of Clarity’ 3/1/13 Portland, OR
5) Greater Hartford MIA Day 12/1 Hartford
6) Black & Hispanic/Latino Male Forum 12/14 CCSU New Britain
to Advance Healthier Communities 12/6 Web
Section II. Other, Announcements, Research
Greetings Friends!
It is my hope this day finds you well and in good health. On Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., The Conference of Churches, located at 224 Farmington Avenue, will be hosting a free special event called, “Rising Above & Living Well: Cancer Beyond Diagnosis.” The purpose of the program is to uplift and educate members of the community about cancer through faith and holistic health. If you are like me, you know the stories of too many of our friends and family members who received the diagnosis of cancer and did not know how to rise above its challenges by living well and embracing best practices for health and healing.
Please spread the word and invite your friends and family members who could benefit from a day of inspiration and education. We will have special presentations from staff of Hartford Hospital and faith leaders who know what it is to journey through cancer. Lunch will be included and participants will be eligible for a drawing for a 50 inch flat screen television. Please feel free to forward this email far and wide – especially to those friends and family members going through cancer right now.
Feel free to call Jazmine Brown at 860-247-0017 ext. 28 or register on-line at www.RisingAbove.eventbrite.com
Please be sure to register – as seating is limited.
Grace and Peace;
Rev. Shelley D. Best
Online registration is now available for the Second Annual Health Literacy conference entitled ‘Towards a Culture of Clarity’ held by Legacy Health and its community sponsors.
CE/CME is available.
Date: March 1, 2013
Location: Governor Hotel, Portland, Oregon
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: $70 before January 10, 2013; $85 after January 10th
Click on the link below to read more about the conference and to
register:
making-it-clear-conference.aspx
This conference offers information and hands-on workshop for practitioners in all areas of medicine.
Hope to see you there!
Erin
A group of grass root organizations have come together around the issue of mental health in the African-American community. They are sponsoring an informational and educational session on mental health and mental illness advocacy. It will take place on Saturday, December 1st from 12 noon - 5 PM at the Kabbalah House in Hartford (1023 Albany Ave.).
The list of supporters, advocates and resources is growing. If you have an interest in this subject or want to lend your support, please contact Kevin Muhammad @ 203-804-7432. Please spread the word.
Please see attached miaday for more information.
Thank you.
Glenn A. Cassis
Executive Director
African-American Affairs Commission
210 Capitol Ave. Room 509
Hartford, CT 06106-1591
Phone: 860-240-0258
Fax: 860-240-8444
The Connecticut State Department of Education, the Connecticut Parent Information and Resource Center,
and the State Education Resource Center (SERC) invite you to advance the agenda of equity and social justice
for young Black and Hispanic/Latino males in Connecticut!
Please see attached BHMF for more information.
You are invited to a Let’s Move Faith and Communities! Webinar/Conference Call for faith and community leaders on Thursday, November 29th
Make Your Community a Source of Health and Wellness
Join this Let’s Move Faith and Communities webinar to learn about the role of faith and community organizations as catalysts for health and wellness, and hear from faith leaders as they share how they have successfully established programs for healthy living in their communities.
Sue Heitmuller, Manager of Health Ministry and Community Benefits for Adventist HealthCare, will offer thoughts on the important role of health in faith settings and provide an overview on how to develop health leadership in your community. We’ll also hear from faith community leaders who have successfully integrated health and wellness into the lives of their congregations.
The presentation will be followed by a Question & Answer session.
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
2:00 PM Eastern
2:00 PM Eastern
(1:00 PM Central, 12:00 PM Mountain, 11:00 AM Pacific)
Click here and select the November 29th webinar to reserve a spot for this Let’s Move Faith and Communities event
SAVE THE DATE: Our next Let's Move Faith and Communities webinar/call will be held on January 31st, 2013 at 2 pm ET. Join us to learn how to provide families with the information, support, and food they need to develop or maintain a healthy lifestyle. Hear about how Catholic Charities West Virginia transformed their food pantry into a source of health and wellness for their community.
Good Morning!
Please find the attached flyer for our upcoming webinar: Asthma in the Home Environment: The Healthy Homes Approach. If you could please send out to all of your networks, that would be much appreciated!
Asthma in the Home Environment: The Healthy Homes Approach
Asthma is the single most avoidable cause of hospital admission, yet it remains among the most common reasons for admission to hospitals for children. Join us to learn more about how asthma impacts our state and how an environmental approach can reduce the burden of this chronic disease. Also featured is an innovative pilot project, Putting on Airs, that uses a community-based approach to asthma control.
Webinar Learning Objectives:
· Define and discuss the components of Connecticut’s asthma burden
· Identify environmental agents that trigger asthma symptoms and asthma friendly remediation strategies.
· Describe the how the seven “Healthy Homes Principles” apply to the prevention and control of asthma in the home environment
Thursday, November 29th
12:30-2:00pm EST
Registration: The webinar is free, but pre-registration on TRAIN is required. Register at www.ct.train.org by choosing course number 1037478 . A certificate of attendance will be provided. Contact: Anjuli Bodyk at (203) 737-6264 or email anjuli.bodyk@yale.edu .
Anjuli Bodyk, BS
Training Coordinator, CT-RI Public Health Training Center
Office of Community Health, Yale School of Public Health
135 College Street, Suite 200
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203-737-6264
Fax: 203-737-4591
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  Join us for a lively discussion on how to bring prevention to work through workplace wellness programs. Presenters will share innovative strategies and tried and true approaches to solving community health challenges through workplace wellness--including key partnerships in place to advance these efforts and how to support small businesses. Please register for this interactive Web Forum to learn more. During the Web Forum, the presenters will:
Share new workplace wellness survey findings not previously released;
Highlight workplace wellness efforts happening around the country through the Community Transformation Grant Program;
Discuss recent innovations from the Healthy Worksites Program;
Feature findings and recommendations on implementation of workplace wellness programs in California small businesses, particularly those run by people of color; and
Demonstrate how you can apply these findings to your work and efforts at the state and local level.
Special Guest Speakers
Dr. Jeff Levi
Trust for America’s Health Tom Mason Alliance for a Healthier Minnesota Jason Lang Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS University of Rochester Medical Center Jeremy Cantor, MPH Prevention Institute Carla Saporta, MPH The Greenlining Institute
Is the 'register now' link not working? Copy and paste the following text into your web browser: https://publichealthinstitute.webex.com/publichealthinstitute/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=960546907
Dialogue4Health is a program of the Public Health Institute. Its free, interactive forums bring leading experts together to examine cross-sectorial issues and offer surprising insights critical to anyone concerned about the health of our nation. For more information, email Dialogue4Health@phi.org or call (510) 285-5690.
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Rescheduled: 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit, December 17-19, National Harbor, MD
Good news: If you previously registered for the 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit, you do not need to register again. Your existing registration will transfer. This includes any sessions that you selected.
Good news: If you previously registered for the 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit, you do not need to register again. Your existing registration will transfer. This includes any sessions that you selected.
· You will need to rebook your hotel. Contact the hotel directly at 301-965-4000 and reference the code SCM or Health Disparities, or register online with the group code SCMSCMA. The deadline for hotel reservations is December 7.
· The program schedule will remain the same. Please refer to the program-at-a-glance on the Summit website.
· New registrations will be handled on-site. The 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit is the leading scientific gathering on health disparities. Visit the summit website to learn more about sessions and topics.
Researchers find link between weight and the economic and educational status of the community
URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_131416.html(*this news item will not be available after 02/14/2013)
By Robert Preidt
Friday, November 16, 2012 
FRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Children in poor neighborhoods are more likely to be obese than those in middle-class or rich neighborhoods, according to a new study.
Researchers looked at more than 17,500 5-year-old children in about 4,700 neighborhoods across the United States. Compared to children in wealthy areas, those in middle-class areas had a 17 percent greater risk of obesity, and those in poor neighborhoods had a 28 percent greater risk, the investigators found.
The findings held regardless of factors such as individual household income and how much television children watched, the Rice University researchers said.
Obesity risk also was higher among children in neighborhoods with lower levels of education, while living in neighborhoods with a high percentage of foreign-born residents was associated with a 20 percent reduced risk of obesity, the study authors found.
The findings were released online in advance of publication in an upcoming issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine.
"We know there are characteristics specific to families and individual children that are associated with obesity," study co-author Justin Denney, associate director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Urban Health Program, said in a Rice University news release. "Those relationships are pretty well understood at this point, but less well understood are community influences such as the social and demographic characteristics of the places people live."
"Neighborhood poverty is associated with childhood obesity above and beyond the poverty status of the child's family and other individual and family characteristics," Denney said. "This tells us there is something about the community that is also influencing childhood obesity."
The findings suggest that neighborhood-wide programs, as well as individual-level efforts, are needed to combat the child obesity epidemic in the United States, the researchers said.
Nearly 32 percent of U.S. children aged 2 to 19 years are overweight or obese, the study authors pointed out in the news release.
Although the study found an association between childhood obesity and neighborhood economic and education status, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
SOURCE: Rice University, news release, Nov. 12, 2012
Dear Colleagues: An important “to-do” this holiday season – talk to your family about health history!
Thanksgiving is national Family Health History Day! What better time to find out about your family history than a day spent with family? Our DPH website’s Family Health History page gives you access to several tools and resources, among them the U.S. Surgeon General’s family health history Web-based tool called “My Family Health Portrait
” available in English, Spanish, and Italian.
” available in English, Spanish, and Italian.
Most of us know that we can reduce our risk of disease by eating a healthy diet, getting enough exercise, and not smoking. But did you know that family history might be one of the strongest influences on your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or cancer? Your family health history is an essential component of preventive healthcare that can help identify disease risk before symptoms start.
It is helpful to talk with family members about health history, write this information down, and update it from time to time. This record will be an invaluable tool for your healthcare provider as well as your child’s pediatrician. And this way family members will have organized and accurate information ready to share with their health care providers.
Make talking about family health history a new Thanksgiving tradition this year. If there are relatives you won’t see over turkey dinner, send them an attractive CDC Health eCard at: Send a family health history eCard.This holiday season, give the gift of good health to your loved ones – and start it with family health history! Happy Thanksgiving!
Beverly Burke, M.S.W., Coordinator
CT Department of Public Health, Genomics Office
410 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06134
860.509.7122
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 20, 2012 |
Contact: HHS Press Office
(202) 690-6343 |
The Obama administration moved forward today to implement provisions in the health care law that would make it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. The provisions of the Affordable Care Act also would make it easier for consumers to compare health plans and employers to promote and encourage employee wellness.
“The Affordable Care Act is building a health insurance market that works for consumers,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “Thanks to the health care law, no one will be discriminated against because of a pre-existing condition.”
“The Affordable Care Act recognizes that well-run, equitable workplace wellness programs allow workers to access services that can help them and their families lead healthier lives,” said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. “Employers, too, can benefit from reduced costs associated with a healthier workforce.”
The Obama administration issued:
· A proposed rule that, beginning in 2014, prohibits health insurance companies from discriminating against individuals because of a pre-existing or chronic condition. Under the rule, insurance companies would be allowed to vary premiums within limits, only based on age, tobacco use, family size, and geography. Health insurance companies would be prohibited from denying coverage to any American because of a pre-existing condition or from charging higher premiums to certain enrollees because of their current or past health problems, gender, occupation, and small employer size or industry. The rule would ensure that people for whom coverage would otherwise be unaffordable, and young adults, have access to a catastrophic coverage plan in the individual market. For more information regarding this rule, visit: http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2012/11/market-reforms11202012a.html.
· A proposed rule outlining policies and standards for coverage of essential health benefits, while giving states more flexibility to implement the Affordable Care Act. Essential health benefits are a core set of benefits that would give consumers a consistent way to compare health plans in the individual and small group markets. A companion letter on the flexibility in implementing the essential health benefits in Medicaid was also sent to states. For more information regarding this rule, visit http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2012/11/ehb11202012a.html.
· A proposed rule implementing and expanding employment-based wellness programs to promote health and help control health care spending, while ensuring that individuals are protected from unfair underwriting practices that could otherwise reduce benefits based on health status. For more information regarding this rule, visit:http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2012/11/wellness11202012a.html
URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_131430.html(*this news item will not be available after 02/14/2013)
Friday, November 16, 2012 
By Andrew M. Seaman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A growing and aging population, along with increased access to health insurance, will create the need for 52,000 more primary care doctors within the U.S. by the year 2025, according to a new study.
The researchers wanted to estimate how many such doctors the U.S. healthcare system would need after the passage of 2010's Affordable Care Act, which will give an estimated 34 million more Americans access to health insurance.
But Dr. Winston Liaw, one of the study's authors, said the biggest need will not come from more people having health insurance.
"A lot of the increase in utilization is going to be from population growth. That's going to be the largest driver. Then, a smaller percentage is actually going to be from insurance expansion," said Liaw, who was a fellow at Washington's Robert Graham Center when the study was written.
Liaw and his colleagues, who published their findings in the Annals of Family Medicine, used several databases to estimate how many primary care doctors there are in the U.S., and how many people visit them.
They then used that information with additional data from the U.S. Census Bureau to predict how many doctors would be needed as the population grew, aged and gained access to health insurance.
In 2008, the researchers estimated that people made 462 million office visits to primary care doctors. They estimate that number to grow to 565 million office visits by 2025.
That additional use, they say, will require a 3 percent increase in the current primary doctor workforce, or an additional 52,000 doctors.
"That number is an expectation of how many we'll need in addition to how many we have today," said Liaw, now at Virginia Commonwealth University in Fairfax.
Of those, 33,000 doctors are needed to account for population growth, 10,000 for the aging population and more than 8,000 for increased insurance access.
"The fact that they made separate estimates for the increased demands for primary care services that might be due to population growth on the one hand, and aging of the population and thirdly the Affordable Care Act is a very useful addition to this area," said Dr. John Rowe of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York.
DOCTOR SHORTAGE?
The study, however, cannot say whether or not there will be enough doctors to handle the additional need, said Liaw.
For that, he added, they would have to also look at how many people are expected to graduate from medical school and how many doctors will retire.
But some organizations have looked at those numbers, and are expecting a severe doctor shortage in the coming years.
The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the U.S. will face a shortage of 90,000 doctors by 2020, which will grow to a shortage of more than 130,000 by 2025.
The Affordable Care Act, which puts a lot of focus on primary care doctors, includes some provisions - such as offering additional money - to encourage medical school students to become primary care doctors instead of specialists, who tend to get paid more.
Those provisions, however, are only expected to provide 500 additional doctors per year.
Rowe, who was not involved with the new research, told Reuters Health that he found it "striking" that the authors neglected to address the potential for non-physicians, such as nurse practitioners, to pick up some of the extra workload.
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine issued a report saying nurses could take on additional duties to take some of the strain off of the healthcare system. (see Reuters story of October 5, 2012. http://reut.rs/WfvMcn)
In addition to not taking into account how nurses or physician assistants may influence the numbers, the authors also warn that their estimates are based on how many people visited primary care doctors in 2008.
"If things change, we could not account for that," said Liaw.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/XIQ26D Annals of Family Medicine, November/December 2012.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, November 16, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Two years ago, the National Institutes of Health’s Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) issued a report recommending that NIH move to establish a new institute focused on substance use, abuse, and addiction-related research to optimize NIH research in these areas. Another option strongly considered by the SMRB was the functional integration of existing research resources, rather than creation of a new institute.
After rigorous review and extensive consultation with stakeholders, I have concluded that it is more appropriate for NIH to pursue functional integration, rather than major structural reorganization, to advance substance use, abuse, and addiction-related research. To that end, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) will retain their institutional identities, while strengthening their ongoing efforts to work more closely with each other and with related research programs at other institutes and centers.
NIH has made significant progress in the last two years, coordinating research on substance use, abuse, and addiction across its various institutes and centers. This progress has bolstered my confidence that NIH can achieve the SMRB recommendations without structural reorganization. Moreover, given budget uncertainties, NIH must focus on advancing the entire biomedical research enterprise. The time, energy, and resources required for a major structural reorganization are not warranted, especially given that functional integration promises to achieve equivalent scientific and public health objectives. NIH will begin implementing this functional approach immediately, and develop metrics to ensure that we reach our goals to more effectively conduct and support research in these areas so vital to our nation’s health.
The Office of the Director, the central office at NIH, is responsible for setting policy for NIH, which includes 27 Institutes and Centers. This involves planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all NIH components. The Office of the Director also includes program offices which are responsible for stimulating specific areas of research throughout NIH. Additional information is available at http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
This month, Research Corner provides scholarly resources on diabetes.
· Diabetes Report Card. Center for Disease Control & Prevention. 2012.
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/DiabetesReportCard.pdf [PDF | 1.4MB]
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/DiabetesReportCard.pdf [PDF | 1.4MB]
· The Live Well, be Well Study: A Community-based, Translational Lifestyle Program to Lower Diabetes Risk Factors in Ethnic Minority and Lower-socioeconomic Status Adults.Kanaya, A. M.; Santoyo-Olsson, J.; et al. American Journal of Public Health, v. 102, #8 (August), p. 1551-1558, 2012.
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300456
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300456
· Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Diabetes Care / Adeola, M. Minority Nurse, (Summer), p. 36-42, 2012
http://www.minoritynurse.com/hispanic-latino-health/racial-and-ethnic-disparity-diabetes-care
African Americans
http://www.minoritynurse.com/hispanic-latino-health/racial-and-ethnic-disparity-diabetes-care
African Americans
· Independent Association of Waist Circumference with Hypertension and Diabetes in African American Women, South Carolina, 2007-2009. Warren TY; Wilcox S; et al. CDC - Preventing Chronic Disease, v. 9, 2012: 11_0170.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd9.110170
http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd9.110170
· BMI–Mortality Paradox and Fitness in African American and Caucasian Men With Type 2 Diabetes. Peter Kokkinos, PHD; Jonathan Myers, PHD; et al. Diabetes Care. May 2012 vol. 35 no. 51021-1027. http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc11-2407
Hispanics/Latinos
Hispanics/Latinos
· Effects of Acculturation on a Culturally Adapted Diabetes Intervention for Latinas. Barrera, M. Jr; Toobert, D.; et al. Health Psychology, v. 31, #1 (January), p. 51-40, 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025205
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025205
· Food Insecurity and Low Self-Efficacy are Associated with Health Care Access Barriers among Puerto-Ricans with Type 2 Diabetes. Kollannoor-Samuel, G.; Vega-López, S.; et al. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, v.14, #4, p.552-562, 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-011-9551-9
Asians/Pacific Islanders
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-011-9551-9
Asians/Pacific Islanders
· Understanding and Addressing Unique Needs of Diabetes in Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. George L. King, MD, Marguerite J. McNeely, MD, MPH; et al. Diabetes Care May 2012 vol. 35 no. 5 1181-1188.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc12-0210
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc12-0210
· The ARIC predictive model reliably predicted risk of type II diabetes in Asian populations. Calvin WL Chin, Elian HS Chia; et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2012, 12:48.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-48
American Indians/Alaskan Natives
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-48
American Indians/Alaskan Natives
· The Costs of Treating American Indian Adults with Diabetes within the Indian Health Service. O'Connell, J. M.; Wilson, C.; Manson, S. M.; et al. American Journal of Public Health, v. 102, #2 (February), p. 301-308, 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300332
http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300332
· Genetic Histories: Native Americans' Accounts of Being at Risk for Diabetes. Puneet Chawla Sahota Social Studies of Science. August 20, 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312712454044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312712454044
Angela Jimenez
Administrator
Office of Multicultural Health
CT Department of Public Health
410 Capitol Avenue, MS #13 OMH
Hartford, CT 06134-0308
Tel# 860-509-7142
Fax# 860-509-7160
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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