CDC Celebrates Minority Health Month

This Minority Health Month, come learn about CDC's targeted efforts in promotion of influenza vaccination, tobacco cessation, and community actions aimed at reducing chronic disease. Participate in one of HHS' Days of Action and Unity Activities.

In accordance with this year's Minority Health Month theme: Health Equity Can't Wait. Act Now in Your CommUNITY!, CDC and HHS are focused on highlighting strategies and actions leading to Health Equity.

Minority Health Month at CDC

In celebration of Minority Health Month in April, CDC's Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE) will host several events at CDC's Atlanta Campuses, bringing awareness to and highlighting several efforts towards the advancement of health equity. Below are links to the highlighted topics.

CDC Actions in support of the HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities include targeted efforts in tobacco cessation, promotion of influenza vaccination, and community action to reduce chronic disease.

Examples of activities include:

• Smoking & Tobacco Use
  • CDC Launches National Tobacco Education Campaign
    MMWR Weekly, March 16, 2012 / 61(10):178
  • Media Campaign Resource Center (MCRC)
    • MCRC Tool
      • example of current Spanish Ad
      • example of a current AI/AN Ad
  • Winnable Battles - Tobacco Use
  • Vital Signs - Adult Smoking in the US
• Seasonal Influenza (Flu)
  • Flu Prevention Toolkit | in Spanish
  • People at High Risk of Developing Flu-Related Complications
• Community Transformation Grants (CTGs)
  • National Dissemination and Support Initiative

Achievements of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities 

• Related Report: Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities (Workshop Summary)

Health Disparities component of the National Prevention Strategy and ways the health sector is working with other sectors to address health disparities

• Recommendations for Elimination of Health Disparities among national, state and local partners  
• CDC Feature: NPS: America's Plan for Better Health & Wellness
• Healthy Places: NPS: The Importance of Community Design in Improving Public Health
  • Healthy Community Design Initiative: Recent Accomplishments
  • Health Topics, Key Topics Related to Community Design
• Environmental Justice

Examples of CDC Programs Addressing Disparities

• HHS Million Hearts Initiative at CDC
• Diabetes Public Health Resource (DPHR)
• National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
• National Program to Eliminate Diabetes Related Disparities in Vulnerable Populations
• Native Diabetes Wellness Program
• Vaccines & Immunizations
• Seasonal Influenza (Flu) Print Materials
  • Native Americans & Alaska Natives
  • Spanish Language
• Youth Violence Prevention
• Teen Dating Violence Prevention
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI)
• National Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)
• Expanded & Integrated HIV Testing
• Take Charge. Take the Test.
• National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP), Tobacco Control & National Networks
• Tuberculosis (TB) Patient and General Public Materials
• Tuberculosis (TB) in the African American Community
• National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Spina Bifida | in Spanish
• Disability and Health, Health Care Data & Statistics
• Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW)
• Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the US (REACH US)
• Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Resources
  • The Public Health Reports August/September 2011 supplement (V 126, suppl 3)
    focuses on data systems and their use in addressing social determinants of health.
• Native American Road Safety

Minority Health Month at HHS

Heath Equity Can't Wait. Act Now in Your CommUNITY!

• Disparities Reduction Efforts
• Offices of Minority Health

Health Equity Day of UNITY
Monday, April 2, 2012
Highlights on the Work of Our Communities!
Communities in Action

Health Equity Day of Action
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - Young. Healthy. YouNITED!

Stop bullying now!
Youth violence prevention
Stop Bullying.gov

CDC Links:

• Injury Center: Violence Prevention Electronic Aggression
• LGBT Health: LGBT Youth, Experiences with Violence

Donate the gift of life!
Organ donation promotion

• Donate Life America
• Multicultural Perspectives

Walk it off!
Obesity Prevention

• Let's Move

CDC Links:

• Overweight and Obesity Recommendations
• Childhood Obesity Strategies and Solutions

Watch your mouth!
Oral health promotion

• HHS Oral Health Initiative

CDC Links:

• Division of Oral Health Resources

HHS National Partnership for Action (NPA)

April 2012 marks the 1st Anniversary of the Launch:

• HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities
• National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity

More Information

• CDC Minority Health
• CDC's Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE)
• CDC Health Disparities & Inequalities Report (CHDIR)
• Farmworker Health
• Women's Health
• Office of the Associate Director for Program (OADPG)
• Tribal Support
• Healthy People 2020
• HHS OMH Minority Health Month Act Now in Your CommUNITY!
• HHS National Partnership for Action (NPA)
• AHRQ National Healthcare Disparities Report
• Pandemic Influenza & Vulnerable Populations (AJPH Suppl)
• Public Health Reports Supplement on Data Systems and Social Determinants of Health