Tuesday, April 29, 2008

What do you think? (Q. #3)

3. Why were doctors exempt from compliance with nondiscrimination laws under Title VI that hospitals were required to follow in order to be eligible for Medicare funding?

Use the Post Comment link and share your thoughts.

Reading list for first webinar

Eliminating Disparities in Treatment and the Struggle to End Segregation (PDF) David Barton Smith. Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University. August 2005

The following contains a brief description of the longer document above: Health disparities as a civil rights issue http://academic.udayton.edu/health/Disparities/disparities02.htm David Barton Smith

Smith, D.B. (2005). The politics of racial disparities: Desegrating the hospitals in Jackson, Mississippi. Milbank Quarterly, 83(2): 247-249. (subscription required)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00346.x


Smith, D.B. (2005). Racial and ethnic disparities and the unfinished civil rights agenda. Health Affairs, 24(2): 317-324. (subscription required)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.317

Smith, D.B., Feng, Z., Fennell, M.L., Zinn, J.S. , and Mor, V. (2007). Separate and unequal: Racial segregation and disparities in quality across U.S. nursing homes. Health Affairs, 26(5): 1448-1458. (subscription required)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.26.5.1448

Sessions recorded for the Legacy of the Civil Rights Era

Due to some technical difficulties, the recording of our 1st session held on Thursday, April 24 did not work properly. Don't worry- we've resolved our problems!

But, we had promised to record each session and the first one provided the foundation for all of the others that will follow. As a result, we decided to go back a re-record the sessions. Darrell Montgomery provides the welcome statements, Bob Griss had the job of laying the groundwork for the civil rights and health care sessions and introducing the first speaker, and David Barton Smith gives an excellent overview of the history of civil rights and health care. Our last speaker, Vernallia Randall, will incorporate her remarks into the next session in which she is a lead speaker.

Darrel Montgomery's Welcome remarks

Bob Griss's Introduction to to the topic and the speaker

Dr. David Barton Smith: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Era

Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Legacy of the Civil Rights Era (Part 1)

Our thanks go to David Barton Smith and Vernellia Randall for their excellent presentation today. Darrell Montgomery got us started; Bob Griss served as the moderator and tracked participant questions to ask at the end.

We had around 15 participants who logged in (not counting those of us who were working to make this happen). There could have been more since I know of one institution who set up a room where a group of people could watch the webinar. Of course, one of the benefits of the webinar is you don't have to leave your desk!

We will have a recording of David Barton Smith's presentation in the near future. As soon as it is ready, a link will be posted on the blog.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Welcome to Civil Rights and Health Care!

Thank you for visiting this blog. We will host our first in a series of 3 webinars on health care and civil rights on Thursday, April 24. David Barton Smith will be our first presenter; Vernellia Randall will be the discussant and Bob Griss will moderate. After the presentation, we will post the link to the recording as well as links to articles that are related to this topic.


If you are interested in registering for this or any of the other presentations, please visit the CHPPD (APHA) web site: http://www.chppd.org/.

Again, thanks for visiting this blog!