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04/12/2016

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OMHHE's  e-newsletter to promote awareness of minority health and health equity issues, support the achievement of our goals to eliminate health disparities, and foster ongoing communication and collaboration.

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MMWR Supplement 

CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity is excited to share with you the recently published MMWR Supplement Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities — Selected CDC-Sponsored Interventions, United States, 2016.


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JAPER Meeting 2015

The 2015 JAPER events included a seminar series by the Association of American Medical Colleges, involving presentations by experts in the fields of medical education, health disparities, and racial and ethnic health issues.The events also included presentations and discussions during the 2015 JAPER Health Meeting at PAHO in Washington, DC.


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Meet the Federal Offices of Minority Health! 

Michelle Allender, RN, BSN, MS; Director of Office of Health Equity (OHE) at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)


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2015 SHE Forum 

On October 15, 2015, OMHHE held the State of Health Equity forum Power of Policy: Working across Sectors to Get to Equity. The Forum was the third in a series of four dialogues at CDC designed to focus on crucial areas for health equity: measurement, essential program elements, policies and infrastructure.


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Staff Changes 

OMHHE says goodbye to CAPT Yvonne Green and others. Read about the latest staff changes.


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Statistics Highlight

Non-Hispanic blacks had the highest prevalence of self-reported obesity (38.1 percent), followed by Hispanics (31.3 percent), and non-Hispanic whites (27.1 percent).


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Quick Links 

Promoting Health Care Access to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Farmworkers

New Spanish-language education materials to help organizations that serve Spanish-speaking immigrant workers raise awareness about occupational safety and health and motivate workers.


CDC Science Clips, Vol. 8, Issue 15, April 12, 2016

04/12/2016

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Welcome to Science Clips, CDC’s weekly scientific digest.

The full report, posted at http://www.cdc.gov/library/sciclips/issues/ includes CDC-authored publications. This week’s top scientific articles are selected on the basis of potential for population impact and practical implementation.

 

Top Articles of the Week 

Selected by a senior CDC scientist from the standard sections listed below.

Communicable Diseases

Molecular and phenotypic characterization of a highly evolved type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus isolated from seawater in Brazil, 2014  Cassemiro KM, Burlandy FM, Barbosa MR, Chen Q, Jorba J, Hachich EM, Sato MI, Burns CC, da Silva EE. PLoS One. 2016 ;11(3):e0152251.

Measles outbreak in a child care center, Cook County, Illinois, 2015 Clegg WJ, Linchangco PC, Arwady MA, Frias M, Bemis K, Beron AJ, Albertson JP, Conover C, Reid H, Saathoff-Huber L, Echols F, Rubin R, Christiansen D. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2016 Mar 24.

Environmental Health

Procedures to assist health care providers to determine when home assessments for potential mold exposure are warranted Chew GL, Horner WE, Kennedy K, Grimes C, Barnes CS, Phipatanakul W, Larenas-Linnemann D, Miller JD. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2016 Mar 25.

Epidemiology and Surveillance

Low-cost national media-based surveillance system for public health events, Bangladesh Ao TT, Rahman M, Haque F, Chakraborty A, Hossain MJ, Haider S, Alamgir AS, Sobel J, Luby SP, Gurley ES. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Apr;22(4):720-2.

Health Economics

Spending by California's Department of Developmental Services for persons with autism across demographic and expenditure categories Leigh JP, Grosse SD, Cassady D, Melnikow J, Hertz-Picciotto I. PLoS One. 2016 ;11(3):e0151970.

Healthcare Associated Infections

Transmission of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus infections in healthcare settings, Abu Dhabi Hunter JC, Nguyen D, Aden B, Al Bandar Z, Al Dhaheri W, Abu Elkheir K, Khudair A, Al Mulla M, El Saleh F, Imambaccus H, Al Kaabi N, Sheikh FA, Sasse J, Turner A, Abdel Wareth L, Weber S, Al Ameri A, Abu Amer W, Alami NN, Bunga S, Haynes LM, Hall AJ, Kallen AJ, Kuhar D, Pham H, Pringle K, Tong S, Whitaker BL, Gerber SI, Al Hosani FI. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Apr;22(4):647-56.

Choosing wisely in healthcare epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship Morgan DJ, Croft LD, Deloney V, Popovich KJ, Crnich C, Srinivasan A, Fishman NO, Bryant K, Cosgrove SE, Leekha S. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2016 Mar 28:1-6.

Immunity and Immunization

Enhanced surveillance of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines in pregnancy in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 2011-2015 Moro PL, Cragan J, Tepper N, Zheteyeva Y, Museru O, Lewis P, Broder K. Vaccine. 2016 Mar 21.

Injury and Violence

Pregnancy-associated homicide and suicide in 37 US states with enhanced pregnancy surveillance Wallace ME, Hoyert D, Williams C, Mendola P. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Mar 26.

Laboratory Sciences

Findings of phlebotomy practices in Kenya in 2010: Need for action Kimani D, Kamau R, Gadde R, Selenic D, Maina S, Marum L, Hongjiang G, Mwalili S, Marfin A, Mwangi J. J Infect Dis. 2016 Apr 15;213 Suppl 2:S53-8.

Occupational Safety and Health - Mining

Mortality from asbestos-associated disease in Libby, Montana 1979-2011 Naik SL, Lewin M, Young R, Dearwent SM, Lee R. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2016 Mar 30.

 

CDC’s Prevention Status Reports Can Now Be Printed as PDF Reports

04/12/2016

Provided by the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support

 

Prevention Status Reports

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CDC’s Prevention Status Reports Can Now Be Printed as PDF Reports

CDC released the latest Prevention Status Reports (PSRs) on February 29, 2016. Now, CDC has added new functionality to the PSR website: each state report has been optimized for printing as a formatted report (and for printing to PDF in browsers that support that feature).

  • To print a state topic report, visit the PSRs by State page, select a state, select one of the 10 topics, then select “Print Topic.” A formatted state topic report will be generated that can then be printed or saved by printing to PDF.
  • To print a state summary showing the state’s complete set of PSR ratings, visit the PSRs by State page, select a state, select “State Summary,” then select “Print Summary.”  A formatted state summary will be generated that can then be printed or saved by printing to PDF.

 

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Blog: Public Health Matters Update

04/12/2016

 


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