REGISTER TODAY for this must attend Health Disparities Health Forum here.
Big thanks to Donna F. Murray, DMSc., MS, PA-C – Founding Director of Clinical Education, Lenior-Rhyne University, Adjunct Professor, Pfeiffer University and Gardner-Webb, and my fabulous guest for this interview: Susan Rucker, DHA, FACHE, Legislative Board Member for Health Care Justice NC, and Assistant Professor, Queens University of Charlotte.
Examples of Health Disparities TODAY that effect our friends, families, neighbors, and loved ones.
COVID: African Americans have almost three times more likely to get COVID and two times more likely to die. (CDC August 18, 2020).
Infant Mortality: 15.6 African American infant deaths per 1,000 versus 2.5 deaths per 1000 for whites. African Americans, Indian, and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htm
Heart Disease: African Americans are 30 percent more likely than whites to die prematurely from heart disease and African American men are twice as likely as whites to die prematurely from stroke (HHS, 2016b). Moreover, African American and American Indian/Alaska Native females have higher rates of stroke-related death than Hispanic and white women.
Colorectal cancer: African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) of any ethnic group in the United States. African Americans bear a disproportionate burden, with an incidence of CRC that is more than 20% higher than in whites and an even larger difference in mortality (ncbi.nlm.hih.gov).ps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5785537/ ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5785537/
REGISTER TODAY for this must attend Health Disparities Health Forum here.
Big thanks for our panelist:
Robert Lindsey, Full Professor/Teacher Advisor – Health Education, Johnson C Smith University
Elisa (Lisa) Melvin, PhD, MEd, Associate Professor – Health Administration, Pfeiffer University
Donna F. Murray, DMSc., MS, PA-C – Founding Director of Clinical Education, Lenior-Rhyne University, Adjunct Professor, Pfeiffer University and Gardner-Webb
Check this out!!!!! The featured speaker is Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is also former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under the Obama Administration. A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and on the staffs of Boston’s Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has also served as Vice Chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first “Independent Member” of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.