Kaiser Family Foundation Launches Free News Report on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities on kaisernetwork.org
Webcasts of interactive panel discussions, interviews, and policy-oriented conferences and events featured in new online report
Washington, D.C. – Recognizing the need for greater awareness and understanding of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, the Kaiser Family Foundation announced today the launch of a news summary report – the Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health. The report is available through a free weekly email, with stories updated daily online on kaisernetwork.org, the Foundation’s news and information service.
Following the model of three other popular Kaiser news summary reports on health policy, HIV/AIDS and women’s health policy, this new report summarizes and synthesizes news coverage of minority health issues from hundreds of print and broadcast news sources, including outlets serving racial and ethnic communities. The report will also highlight studies, initiatives and journal articles that don’t receive mainstream news coverage, and provide a calendar of upcoming events on health disparities.
Along with the new report, kaisernetwork.org will expand its coverage to include webcasts of policy-oriented conferences and events on racial and ethnic health issues and provide related original broadcast programming such as interviews and interactive panel discussions.
“With this new report, our aim is to bring news and developments on health disparities on a real-time basis to people working in the field, especially outside the beltway,” said Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Each story in the report provides links to the original news sources and to resources for further information. Individuals can sign up to receive the free report via weekly email. The report will also be available online on kaisernetwork.org and through RSS feeds and Google News. Organizations will be able to “syndicate” the headlines and/or full summaries on their websites, through Kaiser’s free syndication service.
In addition to the new weekly report, the Foundation engages in a wide range of activities related to minority health, including its policy and survey research; broad-based activities on HIV/AIDS and public programs such as Medicaid that affect minority populations; its Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program, which brings talented African American, Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, D.C., where they are placed in Congressional offices; and a summer internship program for young minority journalists interested in specializing in health reporting.
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to providing information and analysis on health care issues to policymakers, the media, the health care community and the general public. Kaisernetwork.org is a free online news summary and information service operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.
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