Health Policy
The National Health Policy Training Alliance for Communities of Color
The Alliance, which is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is a partnership of organizations aimed at clarifying the link between efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities and the role of health policymaking, as well as ensuring that community leaders have the tools, information and resources to address these issues.
www.healthpolicyalliance.org
Kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, offers in-depth coverage via video and audio webcasts of debates and discussion relating to Latina and Minority Health.
Diversity & Cultural Competance
This is a great website that supports the idea of language and cultural competence to improve health care for minority and immigrant communities. It is primarily for health care providers and advocates, as it offers tips and different model programs that have proven to demonstrate cultural competency.
Allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a well-rounded life experience. The Web site provides a dataset of socioeconomic indicators for metropolitan areas in the form of tables, thematic maps and customizable reports. The data cover various racial/ethnic, income and nativity groups.
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MAMM magazine was launched in October 1997. Its debut marked the first consumer publication of its kind: a magazine devoted to meeting the needs of women diagnosed with breast and reproductive cancer.