4108.2: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This panel presentation will feature the California Campaign to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities Health's California Strategic Approach. The Approach, which was supported with funding from The California Wellness Foundation, The California Endowment, and Kaiser Permanente, will be presented by two co-presenters, Dr. David Carlisle and Larry Cohen. Following the presentation of the Approach, a panel will respond to the plan from the perspectives of the communities/organizations they represent. At the time of printing, America Bracho, CEO and President of Latino Health Access, and Michael Bird, Executive Director of The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, were confirmed as respondents. The Campaign to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health is a statewide public/private sector initiative dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities and advancing systematic change that will improve heath outcomes for all Californians. Health disparities are a major challenge for California. Data shows that low-income individuals and people of color generally have higher rates of poor health and injury than higher income groups and whites. In many cases, these disparities are due to diseases and injuries that are preventable. Health disparities are not the result of specific populations experiencing a different set of illnesses than those affecting the general population. Rather, the overall susceptibility to disease is greater and illness rates are higher due to a broad range of environmental conditions. One of the chief underlying causes of health disparities is increasingly understood to be social and economic inequality; i.e., social bias and institutional racism, limited education, poverty, and related environmental conditions that either directly produce ill health or promote unhealthy behaviors that lead to poor health. The California Campaign is engaging the support of leaders from different sectors across the state to develop strategies that address the specific ways their sector impacts racial and ethnic health disparities, as well as to identify common activities that will foster meaningful change in the overall environment that has created these inequalities. The Campaign is co-chaired by the California Health and Human Services Agency and APHA. It is supported by The California Wellness Foundation, The California Endowment, and Kaiser Permanente. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Participants of this session will be able to 1) identify key environmental conditions contributing to health disparities; 2) delineate the role of prevention in reducing disparities; and 3) apply these findings to their own work. | |||
| Larry Cohen, MSW Michael Bird, MSW, MPH America Bracho, MPH, CDE Arnold Perkins Mildred Thompson, MSW | |||
| Robert Ross, MD | |||
| Organized by: | APHA | ||