Workforce Development as a Promising Approach to Improving Health Disparities Among Young Males

This chapter focused on cultivating mobile activism mobile journalism with middle and high schoolers of a town in Long Island. The youth film production effort was in response to a hate crime. An immigrant was attacked and killed by a group of young males after a suspected spree of other attacks that same night. After the murderous incident, immigrant parent and students of the local schools feared for their lives. Working towards the goals, the organizers set out to teach students how to use mobile and computer technologies for filmmaking. Using themes of human rights, they also focused on responding to hate crimes and immigration issues. This chapter offers key discoveries and lessons. The short intensive program provided academic and workforce development skills as well as how to use computer technology for digitizing personal narratives. The program also offered informal academic purposes, along with observations, opportunities, and recommendations from the findings for other K-12 digital video filmmaking endeavors.

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Digital Narratives of Immigrant Youth

Computer-Mediated Learning for Workforce Development - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-4111-0.ch007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 132-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Regina Casale ◽

Dominic Mentor

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Workforce Development ◽

Hate Crime ◽

Long Island ◽

Personal Narratives ◽

Film Production ◽

Young Males ◽

Local Schools ◽

Intensive Program ◽

K 12

This chapter focused on cultivating mobile activism mobile journalism with middle and high schoolers of a town in Long Island. The youth film production effort was in response to a hate crime. An immigrant was attacked and killed by a group of young males after a suspected spree of other attacks that same night. After the murderous incident, immigrant parent and students of the local schools feared for their lives. Working towards the goals, the organizers set out to teach students how to use mobile and computer technologies for filmmaking. Using themes of human rights, they also focused on responding to hate crimes and immigration issues. This chapter offers key discoveries and lessons. The short intensive program provided academic and workforce development skills as well as how to use computer technology for digitizing personal narratives. The program also offered informal academic purposes, along with observations, opportunities, and recommendations from the findings for other K-12 digital video filmmaking endeavors.

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Applying a Health Equity Lens to Evaluate and Inform Policy

Ethnicity & Disease ◽

10.18865/ed.29.s2.329 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (Supp2) ◽

pp. 329-342 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Megan D. Douglas ◽

Robina Josiah Willock ◽

Ebony Respress ◽

Latrice Rollins ◽

Derrick Tabor ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Disparities ◽

Health Policy ◽

Health Equity ◽

Workforce Development ◽

Policy Development ◽

Maternal Child Health ◽

Organizational Policies ◽

Equity Policy ◽

State And Local ◽

Critical Components

Health disparities have persisted despite decades of efforts to eliminate them at the national, regional, state and local levels. Policies have been a driving force in creating and exacerbating health disparities, but they can also play a major role in eliminating disparities. Research evidence and input from affected community-level stakeholders are critical components of evidence-based health policy that will advance health equity. The Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center (TCC) for Health Disparities Research at Morehouse School of Medicine consists of five subprojects focused on studying and informing health equity policy related to maternal-child health, mental health, health information technology, diabetes, and leadership/workforce development. This article describes a “health equity lens” as defined, operationalized and applied by the TCC to inform health policy development, implementation, and analysis. Prioritizing health equity in laws and organizational policies provides an upstream foundation for ensuring that the laws are implemented at the midstream and downstream levels to advance health equity. Ethn Dis. 2019;29(Suppl 2):329-342; doi:10.18865/ed.29.S2.329.

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Foreword: Envisioning Health Disparities

American Journal of Law & Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0098858800002781 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 29 (2-3) ◽

pp. 151-158

Author(s):

Scott Burris

Keyword(s):

Health Disparities

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The Complexity of Health Disparities: More Than Just Black–White Differences

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/2020_persp-20-00199 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Charles Ellis ◽

Molly Jacobs

Keyword(s):

Health Disparities ◽

Clinical Outcomes ◽

The United States ◽

Careful Examination ◽

White Americans ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

Death Rates ◽

The Social ◽

Health Related ◽

Language Pathology

Health disparities have once again moved to the forefront of America's consciousness with the recent significant observation of dramatically higher death rates among African Americans with COVID-19 when compared to White Americans. Health disparities have a long history in the United States, yet little consideration has been given to their impact on the clinical outcomes in the rehabilitative health professions such as speech-language pathology/audiology (SLP/A). Consequently, it is unclear how the absence of a careful examination of health disparities in fields like SLP/A impacts the clinical outcomes desired or achieved. The purpose of this tutorial is to examine the issue of health disparities in relationship to SLP/A. This tutorial includes operational definitions related to health disparities and a review of the social determinants of health that are the underlying cause of such disparities. The tutorial concludes with a discussion of potential directions for the study of health disparities in SLP/A to identify strategies to close the disparity gap in health-related outcomes that currently exists.

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