Health Disparity Reduction

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Health Disparity Reduction Minority Health

• Audrea Woodruff
• Acting Section Manager

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History and Organizational Structure
In 1988, the Office of Minority Health (OMH) was
established by executive order to serve as the
coordinating body for minority health issues in
the State of Michigan.

• The OMH served five populations of color.
• 1.) African-Americans
• 2.) Hispanics and Latinos
• 3.) American Indians and Alaskan Natives
• 4.) Asians and Pacific Islanders
• 5.) Arab Ancestry

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Health Disparities Reduction Minority Health
Mission

• Provide a persistent and continuing focus on
  eliminating disparities in the health status of
  Michigans Racial and Ethnic Populations.
• Ensure policies, programs and implementation
  strategies are culturally and linguistically
  tailored to reduce mortality and morbidity rates.
• Collaborate with state, local and private sectors
  to advance and implement health promotion and
  disease prevention strategies.

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Social Determinants of Health

• Unemployment
• Housing
• Food availability
• Education
• Equal Opportunity
• Access to Health Care
• Transportation
• Social support
• Stress

Poor conditions lead to poorer health. An
unhealthy environment and unhealthy behaviors
have direct harmful effects, but the worries and
insecurities of daily life and the lack of
supportive environments also have an influence.
-WHO, 1999
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Populations Served

• African Americans
• Hispanics and Latinos
• American Indians and Alaskan Natives
• Asians and Pacific Islanders
• Arab Ancestry

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Identified Scope

• SIX HEALTH RELATED EVENTS
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Cancer
• Infant mortality
• Diabetes
• HIV/AIDS
• Violence

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Funding Sources

• Preventive Block Grant 430,000
• (Federal)
• Healthy Michigan Fund 900,000
• (State)
• National OMH Grant 150,000
• (Federal)

• Total 1,480,000

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Section Staffing

• Audrea Woodruff - Acting Section Manager
  
• Jacquetta Hinton - Program Specialist
• Project Coordinator - Patrick Jackson
• Secretary - Gerri Motley

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Section Components

• Funded Community Demonstration Projects
• MDCH Working Group
• Check UP! or Check OUT!
• Building partnerships

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2006 Disparities Reduction Grantees
Organization Topic Target Pop. Geog. Area
Adult Wellbeing Institute Hypertension African American Detroit
Arab Amer. Chaldean Coun. Cancer Arab Ancestry DEMA
Genessee County Health Dept Lead African American Flint
Huron Potawatomi, Inc Diabetes American Indian Wyoming/BC
Oakland Livingston Human Svcs Infant Mortality African American Pontiac
St. John Community Health Diabetes/Obesity African American NW/NE Detroit
St. Joseph Mercy Health Care Asthma African American Ypsilanti
Tomorrows Child/ MI SIDS Infant Mortality African American Detroit
YMCA Greater Grand Rapids Obesity/Overwt Afr. Amer/Latino Grand Rapids
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Health Disparities Workgroup

• PURPOSE

• Increase awareness of health disparities
• Collect and disseminate relevant data
• Distribute information on public health
  interventions with proven effectiveness
• Establish systemic approach to intra and
  inter-departmental collaboration and communication

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Working Group

• Collected data
• Health Disparities Power Point
• Fact Sheets
• Tool Kit
• CD/Fact Sheets/What Every African American Male
  Must Know
• Subcommittees
• Lunch and Learn
• Standards and Criteria

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Check UP! or Check OUT!

• Target Population African American men aged
  15-64 in the city of Detroit
• Focus Under utilization of preventive healthcare
  services for populations that have insurance
• Methods
• Focus Groups
• Media Campaign
• Managed Care Organizations
• Advisory Groups
• Speakers Bureau

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Building Partnerships

• The program continues to Build Partnerships by
• Collaborating and coordinating with all divisions
  of public health, other state agencies, local
  health departments, community based organizations
  and academia to provide health education and
  services to minority populations.
• Distributing a Health Disparities Toolkit
  throughout the state to our public health
  partners, HMOs, and local health departments.
• Presenting at several conferences, meeting, and
  forums as well as display posters and display
  boards.

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We cannot become what we need to be by remaining
what we are Max Depree