My SIXTH podcast show for my Ethnic Health Disparities show focuses on CDC's Health Disparities and Inequalities Report - US 2011. In particular, I highlight the findings on ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH and discuss issues related to Inadequate and Unhealthy Housing and Unhealthy Air Quality. These next several shows will review the health disparities data and try to make sense out of them for the general population. Check it out -- I get very edgy in this show!

My FIFTH podcast show for my Ethnic Health Disparities Podcast Show reviews the Centers for Disease and Control & Prevention (CDC)  report - "Health Disparities and Inequalities Report - United States 2011." This show along with several others will review actual national health disparity data from federal agency so that we can begin to know and recognize what's behind the numbers. This particular show focuses on SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH and how they relate to ethnic health disparities.

This is my FOURTH podcast show for my Ethnic Podcast Shows. In this show, I discuss some of the most SERIOUS, EDGY, and POLITICALLY & CULTURALLY SENSITIVE issues related to Ethnic Health disparities. That is, defining Race, Ethnicity, and Minority and how each concept directly impacts an individual's and group's health status. This also leads us to a very difficult and sensitive topic -- racism -- and its impact on ethnic health disparities and everyone's health status. So take a chance and listen to this very timely and often neglected discussion on the effects of race, racism, ethnicity and minority status on our life expectancy and overall health status.

This is my THIRD podcast show for my Ethnic Health Podcast Shows. This show focuses on categories of racial classifications which directly lead to issues of ethnic health disparities. In this podcast show, I highlight the federal office -- Office of Management and Budget (OMB) which is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States -- that provides the framework for the racial classifications in our United States and then I provide the definitions (according to OMB) for each racial and ethnic population in the United States. This podcast show challenges the framework, the definitions of the racial populations as well as provide a strong suggestion as to removing this responsibility for the Office of Management and Budget and placing it in another federal office or agency such as the National Institutes of Health!

This is my SECOND podcast show for my Ethnic Podcast Shows. This show highlights some of significant HISTORY of ethnic health disparities and health disparities along with discussion about the 1985 Federal Document - Report of Secretary's Task Force on Black & Minority Health -- organized by the former Secretary of Health - Margaret Heckler. This podcast show gets very edging yet historically informative!

Here is my actual FIRST podcast show for the Ethnic Health Disparities Podcast show. It is a podcast show dedicated to all issues related to ethnic health disparities. In this first show, I introduce myself, my areas of expertise & experience and then cover the basic issues of health disparities, health care disparities, and why Ethnic Health Disparities is not discussed well in the general public. Although it is still a controversial topic, now is the time to dispel many of misconceptions related to health disparities and particularly ethnic health disparities.