"Altogether, nearly two-thirds of the patients of URM
pediatricians were minority children, and more than half
were uninsured or enrolled in the Medicaid program," said
Dr. Sarah E. Brotherton, one of the lead authors of the
report.
Comparatively, close to forty percent of the patients of non-URM pediatricians were minority children, and almost
the same percentage were either uninsured or enrolled in
the Medicaid program, the authors found.
The report is published in the September issue of
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Source:"Minority Pediatricians See More Minority Patients,"
Reuters Health, www.reutershealth.com
, September 18, 2000.
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HHS AWARDS GRANTS TO ELEVEN STATES TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE
September 22 - Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala announced that eleven states have
received one-year federal grants totaling $13.6 million to
develop plans for providing their uninsured citizens access
to affordable health insurance.
Under the new State Planning Grants program, administered by HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA),
grantees from state agencies first will conduct studies to
better identify the characteristics of uninsured citizens.
The grantees -- from Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont and Wisconsin -- will then use that data to determine the most
effective methods to provide high-quality, affordable health
insurance to low-income families.
"We expect to receive some interesting and inventive models for
covering the uninsured that will be very useful to other states
and the nation as a whole," said HRSA administrator Claude Earl Fox, MD, MPH.
These state planning grants complement another recently announced HHS grants program -- the Community Access Program (CAP) that awarded $22 million in grants to 23 communities to help local health providers develop integrated service delivery networks offering uninsured individuals a full range of health care services.
The communities who received grants in this program were located in: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Background information on the State Planning Grants program is
available on the Web at www.hrsa.gov/stateplanning
.
Source: HRSA Press Release, www.hrsa.gov , September 22, 2000.
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NEW CLEARINGHOUSE ON CHILDREN AND FAMILY LAUNCHED
The Columbia University Institute for Child and Family
Policy is pleased to announce the launching of a new website: http://www.childpolicyintl.org
The Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child,
Youth, and Family Policies provides cross-national, comparative
information and linkages regarding the policies, programs,
benefits and services available in the advanced industrialized
countries to address child, youth and family needs.
Initial coverage focuses on 22 of the Organization for Economic
Development (OECD) countries and expansion to other countries
and parts of the world is planned.
Initial funding provided by the W. T. Grant Foundation.
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