As part of National Minority Health Month 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) released two reports detailing the type of care received by individuals as part of Medicare Advantage (MA). “This is the first time that CMS has released Medicare Advantage data on racial and ethnic disparities in care separately for women and men,” said Dr. Cara James, Director of the CMS Office of Minority Health in a news release. “Showing the data this way helps us to understand the intersection between a person’s race, ethnicity, and gender and their health care.” One report focuses on gender and revealed “sizable differences” (both positive and negative) in the quality of treatment for certain conditions among MA ...
Rod Carew, miembro del Salón de la Fama del béisbol y reciente receptor de un trasplante, sabe ahora a quién le pertenecieron el corazón y el riñón que lo mantienen vivo: a Konrad Reuland, tight end de la Ravens y Jets y 49ers quien murió después de la ruptura de un aneurisma cerebral. Se cree que es el primer trasplante de su especie entre atletas profesionales, pero ese es solo uno de los muchos vínculos que comparten estos dos deportistas. Otro de ellos es que Reuland acudió a la misma escuela secundaria que los hijos de Carew. Los caminos del donante y del receptor ya habían coincidido desde antes. Hubo amigos mutuos que fueron atando los cabos entre la muerte de Reuland y la segunda oportunidad de vida de Carew. Las familias colaboraron para confirmarlo. Luego ...
Imagine: You are a 20-year-old Latina new mother in East Harlem, N.Y. You already live in a poor neighborhood that has a higher infant mortality rate than the nearby, wealthy Upper East Side. Now, as you leave the hospital, you need resources to care for yourself and the baby. Where do you get help? What if, blocks from your home, there's a place with workshops on infant safety and bonding? What if it also has a lactation room? What if it also has yoga and dance classes? What if it also offers primary care, mental health care, screenings, and vaccinations? What if you apply there for insurance, and get referrals to other local services, too? In New York, city leaders are creating these "Neighborhood Health Action Centers." Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the city's health ...
When it comes to smoking, there is always “good news” and “bad news.” The good news is that smoking rates have been steadily declining in the U.S. for decades. Bonus good news: Latino adults generally have lower rates of smoking than other racial/ethnic groups with the exception of Asian Americans. Now, the bad news. A study from the University of Colorado has determined that about 15% of all adults in the country – over 36 million – continue to smoke cigarettes. Of that number, nearly 3 of 4 are plagued by one or more key social disadvantages: low income, no college education, no health insurance, or a disability. According to the study’s findings, Americans with lower socioeconomic status “suffer from epidemic smoking rates.” “In the last ...
Calling all health champions ages 15-18! The Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living is awarding 2017 Texas Health Champions that are helping to prevent or deter obesity in their local town, cities, communities, or schools. The Award Ceremony will be held during the Texas Obesity Awareness week, September 11th through the 15th, 2017 in Austin and will honor young Texans (15-18) who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in the community in an effort to raise awareness and reduce the burden of the obesity epidemic. Awardees will also be highlighted on the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living website, blog and other media sources, to learn more or apply for the Rising Star Award, click ...
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men of all races, including Latinos. Latino have lower rates of prostate cancer than Whites, but are more likely to die from the disease. One of the reasons this happens is that Latinos are less likely to get “timely, high-quality treatment," according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). New guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) have shed new light on how all men should approach prostate cancer screenings. The USPTF’s new recommendations say that all men younger than 70 with no signs of prostate cancer may no longer be discouraged by their physicians from checking their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. In 2012, the task force recommended against routinely checking PSA levels in ...
Cancer rates continue to decrease among U.S. men, women, and children for all major racial/ethnic groups. That's the good news from the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2014 from the National Cancer Institute and others. The bad news? Hispanics/Latinos had higher risk of death for many cancers, which may in part reflect treatment differences, according to the report. The report also had mixed findings on cancer survival rates, overall. "Survival improved over time for almost all cancers at every stage of diagnosis," said Dr. Ahmedin Jemal of the American Cancer Society and lead author of the study. "But survival remains very low for some types of cancer and for most types of cancers diagnosed at an advanced stage." Cancers with the lowest ...
Para un hombre neoyorquino, el ritual diario de leer el periódico le ayudó a aprender una aptitud que usaría para salvarle la vida a una colega. Cuando va camino al trabajo en el subterráneo, David Martinez hojea The Washington Post en su Kindle para ponerse al día en las noticias de política. En julio del año pasado, al hombre de 55 años le llamó la atención un artículo que publicó el Post sobre un tipo de reanimación cardiopulmonar (RCP) realizada por un espectador, conocida como reanimación cardiopulmonar solo con las manos. La página web del periódico tenía, junto con el artículo, un vídeo que mostraba cómo realizar la reanimación cardiopulmonar solo con las manos al ritmo de una versión a capela y pegadiza de la canción popular de los Bee Gees, ...
Overall, most young people in the United States want any health care overhaul by the current Presidential Administration to “strongly resemble” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which was signed into law under President Barack Obama. A new poll by GenForward found that the majority of young Americans – age 18-30 – think the federal government should be responsible for ensuring that all Americans have health insurance. “I do believe the government should offer it because we pay taxes,” said Rachel Haney, 27, of Tempe, AZ in an interview with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “I do feel like it's a right.” However, the one main caveat that the majority of those surveyed agreed upon was the requirement that all Americans purchase health care or face a fine. The Affordable ...
