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Will the new president make health a top early priority and exercise real leadership on the issue? One of the big lessons of the health reform debate of the early nineties is that the Congress needs to be fully engaged in the process early on. Nevertheless, for health reform legislation to stand a chance, a new President will have to make it an early and top priority and exercise real leadership. Given the history of…
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 For further information contact:Kirran Syed, Kaiser Family Foundation, ksyed@kff.org or (202) 347-5270 Deeana Jang, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, djang@apiahf.org or (202) 466-7772 x223 NEW ANALYSIS REVEALS WIDE DISPARITIES IN HEALTH COVERAGE AMONG ASIAN AMERICANS, NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS, WITH UNINSURED RATES FOR SOME SUBGROUPS AMONG THE HIGHEST IN THE UNITED STATES Breaking Down Data by Ethnicity Shows Korean Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders Are About Twice…
Aliyah Baruchin, freelance health contributor, The New York Times and other news outlets, New York, NY Racial and ethnic disparities in health care Steve Bogira, freelance journalist and author, Chicago, IL The impact of poverty and race on health, and the disparity in health care, reflected in two adjacent city neighborhoods Greg Branch, freelance journalist, former Managing Editor, BET News, New York, NY Recruitment of medical personnel from Africa and Asia and its impact on…
Broadcast and cable stations donated an average of 17 seconds an hour to PSAs, totaling one-half of one percent of all TV airtime, according to the study, , released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The most frequent time period for PSAs to air was between midnight and 6 a.m., accounting for 46% of donated PSAs across all stations in the study; looking only at broadcast stations, 60% of donated PSAs ran overnight. The time period…
Broadcast and cable stations donated an average of 17 seconds an hour to PSAs, totaling one-half of one percent of all TV airtime, according to the study, Shouting to be Heard (2): Public Service Advertising in a Changing Television World, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The most frequent time period for PSAs to air was between midnight and 6 a.m., accounting for 46% of donated PSAs across all stations in the study; looking only…
This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to view on kff.org. To download this or other tutorials, visit the tutorials archive page. Slides are available for download using the “Download Slides” link within the…
This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to view on kff.org. To download this or other tutorials, visit the tutorials archive page. Slides are available for download using the “Download Slides” link within the…
The Ad Council and Kaiser Family Foundation hosted forum, , to explore how health-related and other nonprofits and government agencies can use new digital media such as social networking, user-generated content, and gaming to enhance their communications strategies. Vicky Rideout, vice president and director of Kaiser’s Program for the Study of Entertainment Media and Health, and Barbara Shimaitis, senior vice president, Interactive Services, Ad Council, moderated a discussion with Jeff Berman, general manager for MySpace…
Dominic Chavez, photographer, and John Donnelly, reporter, Washington bureau, The Boston GlobeExamine the effectiveness of public and private U.S. funding and programs to help AIDS orphans in Africa Sheri Fink, M.D., freelance reporter, New York City Medical care in times of crisis and disaster, focus on New Orleans, post-Katrina Deborah Franklin, acting deputy science/health editor, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. Genetic testing and its implications for individuals and their health insurance coverage Felice J. Freyer,…
Parents Say They’re Gaining Control Over Their Children's Exposure to Sex and Violence in the Media Parents say they are gaining control over their children's exposure to sex and violence in the media, but they remain more broadly concerned about inappropriate content in the media, according to a new national survey of parents released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report, Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, is a national survey of…
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