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The National Minority Health Month Group
was established in recognition of the need for a credible, objective,
and reliable source of integrated data and expertise to eliminate
health disparities among all minority populations by building
public/private partnerships, fostering cultural competency among
health care providers, encouraging health education and training, and
expanding the use of state-of-the-art technology.
The National Minority Health Month Group has defined a systematic
approach to the elimination of health disparities that advances the
practice of needs assessment, disease management and impact evaluation
while remaining firmly grounded within the conceptual framework of
core public health functions. |
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This strategy has three components: |
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Data Collection and Analysis: There
is a need for reliable data that can help healthcare providers,
administrators, community-based and faith-based organizations,
policymakers and payors deliver precise resources to communities
that have priority needs. Zip code level data that profile the
health status of subpopulations, combined with the science and art
of small area analysis, open heretofore closed windows into the
health of subsets of the population that are often masked when
data are aggregated to the county or state level. |
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Primary Care Practice and
Research Networks: Organized ambulatory practices within high-risk
communities devoted principally to the primary care of patients,
affiliated with each other (and often with an academic or
professional organization) in order to investigate questions
related to community-based practice. |
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Population-Based Care
Management: Structured, protocol-driven care that can improve the
client’s health outcomes as well as contain the payor’s costs for
treatment. |
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The National Minority Health Month Group
has a diversified professional and technical staff, which has academic
credentials, technical training and practical experience in data
collection, small area analysis, conference
planning, program management, community organization, writing, editing
and publishing.
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