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FOCUS-MulticulturalHealthcare

Issue:	July 2008
Volume:	4
Number:	2

Editor's Corner

•	In it for the Long Haul: Addressing the Social and Economic Determinants of Health Disparities

•	Leveraging the Social Determinants of Health

Feature Articles

•	The Initiative for Decreasing Disparities in Depression

•	Cultural Competency Training in the Garden State: A Q&A with Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD

•	4 Questions with... Olajide Williams, MD, MS, Director of the Harlem Stroke Initiative for children

Clinical Trials

•	FREEDOM-C: Oral treprostinil in combination with an endothelin receptor antagonist and/or a phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitor for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension

•	Health assessment to identify cardiovascular disease risk factors in Chinese American immigrants

•	Study of ASP2151 in subjects with recurrent episodes of genital herpes

•	TRY FIRST: A 12-week, randomized, open-label trial of duloxetine vs. generic SSRIs in the treatment of a severe depressive episode

•	AZMATICS: Azithromycin asthma trial in community settings

•	Cancer prevention and treatment among African American older adults

•	Culturally sensitive depression care management for Latino primary care patients

•	Evaluation of a culturally- and linguistically-appropriate eHealth portal to facilitate Improved diets, increased fitness levels, and weight loss among US Hispanics

•	Evaluation of the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and antiviral activity of GW433908/Ritonavir when administered to HIV-1 infected PI-naive and experienced, pediatric subjects

•	Exploring decision making of Hispanics and African Americans with HIV/AIDS participating in clinical trials

•	Heart disease risk factors in African Americans

•	Patient-centered depression care for African Americans

•	Primary care community partnerships to prevent diabetes

•	Safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic, and metabolic features of raltegravir among African American men and women with HIV infection

•	Study to describe the antiviral effect of Entecavir in African Americans and Hispanics with chronic Hepatitis B virus infection who are nucleoside-naive

•	Study to evaluate the safety, efficacy and tolerability of KP-1461 as monotherapy for 124 days in antiretroviral-experienced, HIV-1-infected subjects

•	Three-way interaction between gabapentin, duloxetine, and donepezil in patients with diabetic neuropathy

CME

•	Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2008: Prevention Strategies and Response to AIDS

•	Cultural Competency in Healthcare: A Clinical Review and Video Vignettes from the National Medical Association

•	Educating Physicians on Controversies and Challenges in Health: Health Care Disparities among Racial-Ethnic Minority Patients

•	Educating the Health Professional for Improving Cultural Competency

•	Individualizing Antiretroviral Therapy on the Basis of Comorbidities and the Risk for Viral Resistance

•	Strategies to Improve Communication with Latino/Hispanic Patients

•	Individualizing Antiretroviral Therapy on the Basis of Comorbidities and the Risk for Viral Resistance

eAbstracts

•	Barriers to screening colonoscopy for low-income Latino and white patients in an urban community health center

•	Cultural competence in a group intervention designed for Latino patients living with HIV/AIDS

•	Ethnicity, race, and gender differences in serious adverse events among participants in an antiretroviral initiation trial

•	The language spoken at home and disparities in medical and dental health, access to care, and use of services in US children

•	Oral cancer in African Americans: Addressing health disparities

•	Primary-care clinician perceptions of racial disparities in diabetes care

Events

•	International Society on Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB) 2008 Conference: Emerging Public Health Challenges in Improving Cardiovascular Health in the Minority Population Translating Clinical Practice to the Community

•	2008 National Conference on Latinos and AIDS

•	25th Annual Primary Care Summer Conference: Office Urgencies & Emergencies

•	2008 United States Conference on AIDS

•	Sixth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations

•	36th Annual Convention of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America

•	Addressing Healthcare Disparities by Ensuring Language Access to All

•	2008 Cardiometabolic Health Congress

•	American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting & Exposition

•	2008 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

•	The Medical Management of HIV/AIDS

Medical Websites

•	A Guide for Advancing Family-Centered and Culturally and Linguistically Competent Care

•	Interpretation Resources for Healthcare Professionals

•	The National Minority Quality Forum

•	Reducing Health Disparities Faster: Addressing Social Determinants of Health

•	Self-assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Primary Care Health Services

•	Taking Cultural Competency from Theory to Action

Patient Education

•	APositiveLife.com

•	Arabic Language Health Materials

•	Health Information for Chinese-speaking Patients, the Public, and Their Physicians

•	Multilingual Diabetes Education Handouts

•	National Asian Women's Health Organization (NAWHO)

•	Spanish-language Health Information for Children and Their Families

What is the Deal?

•	High amputation rates among diabetic African Americans

•	Doubling of diabetes before motherhood

•	Kidney disease worsening in one-fourth of African Americans


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