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- Title
Eliminating Health Disparities Among Minority Women: A Report on Conference Workshop Process and Outcomes.
- Authors
Kritek, Phyllis Beck; Hargraves, Martha; Cuellar, Ernestine H.; Dallo, Florence; Gauthier, Donna M.; Holland, Christi A.; Ilkiw, Connie; Swanson, Jane W.; Swanson, Reid
- Abstract
A national conference convened in May 2001 explored health disparities among minority women. It included 5 one-hour workshops that randomly assigned each participant to 1 of 4 groups. Groups generated recommendations on conference topics and from these identified priority recommendations. Trained facilitators guided groups through brainstorming and weighted voting processes; individual recommendations were submitted in writing. Participants generated 598 recommendations, 71 of them voted as priorities; these were analyzed to capture participants' "messages." Central themes focused on access issues and cultural incompetence as deterrents to the elimination of health disparities and on education, funding, and community-based, community-driven research as mechanisms for change. Strategies for change included reinventing or expanding the role of minority communities and changing health care itself and "how" it does its work. The essential element in all recommendations was community leadership and control. (Am J Public Health. 2002;92:580-587)
- Subjects
CONFERENCES &; conventions; HEALTH equity; DISCRIMINATION in medical care; MEDICAL care of minorities; BRAINSTORMING; EDUCATION
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2002, Vol 92, Issue 4, p580
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.92.4.580