Wednesday, Feb 04, 2009

TTT Feb 4 HEALTH DISPARITIES IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR:

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LIVE SPECIAL From the OPEN CITIES HEALTH FAIR at Wilder Foundation Headquarters in St. Paul: A BLACK HISTORY MONTH discussion: HEALTH DISPARITIES IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: Access or Responsibility? On first blush, it would be no surprise if we learned that access to good health and adequate health care would be less available within Twin Cities Area communities of color. Access to the resources for preventing illness and injury as well as acute care for sickness and trauma would seem to be less available among folks who live in poverty and that appears truer of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians and other New Americans. But is it? Are the resources actually plenty, but their actual uses meager? Why do so many people use emergency rooms and not doctors and clinics for care best received in less expensive settings?

TTT'S ANDY DRISCOLL talks with community health professionals about the data and the reality of adequate care and accessibility among people with low incomes and a tradition of discrimination in many public services. Can patients be held more responsible for their care and conditions than we do? GUESTS: • MITCHELL DAVIS, JR., Director,OFFICE OF MINORITY & MULTICULTURAL HEALTH -MN Dept. of Health • ROXANNE TISDALE, Director of Health Disparities -OPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER, St. Paul • AKHMIRI SEKHR-RA, Health Systems Navigator, Doula - CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER, Minneapolis

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