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		<title>Culture Bound: The Intersection of CBPR, Health Disparities, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dear Georgetown professor took me under her wing and gave me an opportunity to write a short column about Community-Based Participatory Action Research (child and adolescent mental health) for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (JCAPN). Three months after writing it, I might now approach the column&#8217;s argument&#8217;s differently. I&#8217;d adopt a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=444&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Developments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;how&#8217;s it going? ::silence:: &#60;uncomfortable nod&#62; Yeah&#8230;about my absence&#8230;&#60;/uncomfortable nod&#62; Making moves Well, the least whiny and most appropriately public explanation for this blog&#8217;s stagnation is my transition to a new organization! My new employer received funding from the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health to create [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=426&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All &#8220;Health Policy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/its-all-health-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Housing policy is health policy. Educational policy is health policy. Antiviolence policy is health policy. Neighborhood improvement policies are health policies,&#8221; says David Williams in Unnatural Causes. Last week my professional life converged on “health equity”—a more empowering and assertive approach to understanding the differences in health status we see across social groups. It&#8217;s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=415&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man…institutionalized racism is expensive (2)</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/man%e2%80%a6institutionalized-racism-is-expensive-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States (LaVeist T.A., Gaskin D.J., &#38; Richard P., 2009: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies) Aims a) Estimate the direct medical costs and indirect costs to the economy of health inequalities, which relates to b); b) Estimate the potential financial benefit that would accrue to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=351&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man&#8230;institutionalized racism is expensive.</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/man-institutionalized-racism-is-expensive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd never seen the phrase "health disparities" tweeted so furiously as when connected to the phrase "will cost the health care system $23.9 billion dollars."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=332&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A(H1N1): Health Disparities Update from Boston Public Health Commission</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/ah1n1-health-disparities-update-from-boston-public-health-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s learn about the Boston Public Health Commission&#8217;s commitment to addressing health disparities in Boston (dated September 18, 2009): The video provides a nice&#8211;if somewhat general&#8211;explanation of the problem and displays Barbara Ferrer&#8217;s knowledge. While I have yet to find information describing BPH&#8217;s next steps, I&#8217;m not saying the information isn&#8217;t out there.[1] In August [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=317&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Racialized Biology</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/racialized-biology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 4th grade, Matthew G. broke it to me that black people have extra bones in our feet that allow for faster running. My nine year-old Self, proud of whichever fast-running, gold-medal-winning Jamaican athlete had triggered the conversation, argued there might be some alternative explanations involving how the black runners had grown up or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=269&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Kennedy&#8217;s contribution to health disparities research</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/ted-kennedys-contribution-to-health-disparities-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 2005 Health Affairs article (http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/24/2/452) describing the role of the federal government addressing health disparities, Ted Kennedy wrote:

"The state of U.S. minority health is an embarrassment to the nation. Minority communities are struggling with rising numbers of uninsured citizens, festering epidemics, and lower health care quality, all of which mean increased rates of diseases and preventable deaths.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=240&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Communications: What about mental health?</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/what-about-mental-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthreform.gov offers a very very simple 5-page break down of U.S. health disparities, complete with colorful graphics. At a 5-8th grade reading level, &#8220;Health Disparities: A Case for Closing the Gap&#8221; is probably helpful for everyone who wants to learn about is forced to learn about what&#8217;s going on with racial and ethnic health disparities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=186&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Safe Sex and Tupperware Parties</title>
		<link>http://sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/safe-sex-and-tupperware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force is busy making moves. As you&#8217;ll read (or may have read), its Girlfriends Project (GP) &#8220;targets at-risk [black] women&#8221; in the Pittsburgh metro area for HIV/AIDS awareness raising, assertiveness counseling, and domestic violence education. Between January 1 and June 15, 2009, the GP had 135 women to take advantage of free, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sickofhealthdisparities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8963970&amp;post=141&amp;subd=sickofhealthdisparities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">People need to be given not only reasons to alter risky habits but also the behavioral means, resources, and social supports to do so.</media:title>
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