Health Disparities Resources

The following Web sites offer news, information, and training resources related to health disparities. Please send any resources you find useful to hdwgblog@gmail.com.

AMA Ending Disparities E-Letter

American Academy of Physician Assistants 2011 Position Paper on Health Disparities

CDC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities

Disparities Solutions Center

EquityPA Twitter Feed 

Healthy People 2020 Disparities Section

Kaiser Monthly Health Disparities Update

Kaiser Minority Health

National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quality/Equality News Digest


Physician Assistants for Health Equity

This blog features postings by the members of the AAPA Health Disparities Work Group, a branch of the Clinical and Health Affairs Commission. In their posts, the bloggers write about the disparities seen in health care today and how we can work to identify and eliminate them for good. To join the discussion, leave a comment at the bottom of a post and let us know what you think!

Why I'm worried it's not just croup

May 16, 2012

With decreased immunization rates, wooping cough seems to be making a comeback, showing its distinctive sound particularly on the Pacific coast.
 

The concept of the "Citizen PA"

May 01, 2012

Some PAs may feel a focus on health disparities is extracurricular. Identifying ourselves as citizen PAs allows us to realize our capacities, both large and small, to effect change.
 

The Plan B university vending machine: Would removal limit healthcare access?

April 18, 2012

Politics and media have played a role in encouraging the removal of vending machines containing Plan B to students. Has this also created disparity?
 

Clinician bias in pain care for children: The emperor and his clothing revisited

April 10, 2012

A recent study shows that clinician bias leads to unequal pain care in children, but clinician avoidance of why this is so is the real problem.
 

Not much has changed, has it?

Ben Olmedo, PA-C March 30, 2012

In 1989, PA journals wrote about the need to involve more minorities in the PA profession. In 2012, the headlines still read the same.
 

How will your personal beliefs affect the care you deliver?

March 15, 2012

Caregivers are entitled to personal beliefs, but patients are entitled to receive the care they desire. Decide how you will handle the situation beforehand.
 

Where does health disparities elimination take place?

February 29, 2012

This week, Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC, ponders where finding the end of disparities should start and devises a two-part strategy to gain footing.
 

Thirty years of HIV: Have we shifted our focus in the right direction?

February 22, 2012

February 7th marked 30 years of fighting HIV. We've done an outstanding job stopping the spread of infection, but what about preventing the start of disease and reducing disparities?
 

Physician-assisted suicide: What should we do for our patients?

February 10, 2012

"Primum non nocere" may guide our daily practice, and our personal faith may further guide what we believe in, but what should we do for our patients when it comes to physician-assisted suicide?
 

#Hchlitss TweetChat brings disparities to the forefront, one tweet at a time

February 06, 2012

During a recent Health Communication, Health Literacy, & Social Science TweetChat, Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC, led a real-time, worldwide discussion about health disparities and how AAPA is working to eliminate them.
 
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