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      The Center for Multicultural Health is pleased to announce the 2008 Qualitative Report: Public Health Messages from Utah’s Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations.  The report offers insights into Utah minority health issues beyond the usual numeric health data.

 

The report includes the results of 17 community discussions with 180 members of some of Utah’s racial and ethnic minority communities:  African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic and Latino populations, and representatives of Samoa, Tonga and other Pacific Island nations.  These discussions were held to identify community needs, challenges and opportunities related to seven health topics:  access to health services, asthma, heart disease and stroke, HIV, immunizations, reproductive health and tobacco prevention.  Seven of the sessions were conducted in Spanish. The report was completed by the  University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Health and the other Utah Department of Health programs that address these topics.

 

The Utah Department of Health is currently creating a written response to the report.  The response will explain how health programs intend to incorporate this feedback from minority communities into their program plans.

 

Some Key Messages from Participants

 

Access to employee health insurance is our greatest need.  Many of us have incomes that disqualify us from publicly-funded health care services, yet we cannot afford health insurance premiums and co-payments.  Prevention will remain a luxury without access to health care through affordable employee health insurance.

 

Fund minority community-based organizations to lead health promotion efforts through face-to-face methods. We want health information to come to us personally through peers from our cultures, rather than through mass media.  Written materials and media ads should only reinforce person-to-person influence.

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Public Health Messages from Utah’s Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations

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December 2008  Issue # 30

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