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AoA partners with CMS through their Medicare outreach programs. As it relates to health disparities, CMS has entered into collaboration with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Patient Education Research Center at the Standford University School of Medicine to increase the number of diabetes self-management training programs (DSMT) in the United States.

This collaboration has a particular focus on Hispanic/Latino Medicare beneficiaries and will support HHS’ Interagency Hispanic Elder Initiative. The initiative, launched in 2007 by the ... Click Here to Learn More

CMS will also be entering into partnership with the HOPE VI program. Heralded as the nation’s most aggressive effort to renew the public housing stock over recent decades, the HOPE VI programs has, since 1993, sought to revitalize the nation’s housing stock. On September 26, 2007, this program was slated for continuation through the passage of the HOE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2007. Click Here to Learn More.

CMS and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) are co-spearheading efforts to address disparities. This initiative is a direct outcome of the 2008 “NIH Summit: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities.” The next step in this collaboration is to review recommendations from plenary and breakout sessions in order to identify strategies that address disparities across all Federal sectors (e.g., housing, education, health, etc.). Click Here to Learn More.

CMS is working with the Federal Collaboration on Health Disparities Research (FCHDR). The FCHDR is a collaboration of Federal Partners who operate under the leadership of HHS’ Office of Minority Health. This highly unique entity seeks to identify new or improved solutions to eliminate health disparities through research that can influence practice and policy. Through this collaborative effort, CMS has been working with Federal agencies to: Click Here to Learn More.

The Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center (CDRC) at Baylor College of Medicine provides an integrated approach to research, education, demonstration projects, community programs, and promotion of health policy to reduce the health disparities among culturally diverse, at-risk populations. Please note the following CDRC projects: Click Here to Learn More.

The Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) is the largest national, not-for-profit organization that promotes policies, programs, partnerships, and research to eliminate the unequal burden of health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities and priority populations in the United States and its associated territories. Baylor College of Medicine assumes fiscal and organizational management for the Intercultural Cancer Council and provides the Council with a national office and Web sites. The ICC Web sites include news updates, contacts across the ICC National Network, information about the regional meetings on minorities, the medically priority and cancer, as well as a variety of other resources. Click Here to Learn More.

The Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials (EDICT) project is entering its 5th year, and is devoted to assessing problems and prescribing policy solutions related to improving participation of underrepresented groups in clinical trials. The Website includes a downloadable booklet of Policy Recommendations, a Reading Room consisting of short thought pieces, and other resources. Click Here to Learn More.

The EDICT BackPack Project compiles information about policies, programs, projects, promising practices, and other resources that have been demonstrated to help eliminate disparities in the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups in clinical trials and other research. Visitors are invited to review posted protocols and also to contribute additional nominations. Click Here to Learn More.

The goal of The EDICT CLAS-ACT Project is to increase implementation of CLAS (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services) Standards in clinical trials and other research activities. These standards were developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH). Web-based and downloadable CLAS-ACT self-assessments help researchers and research organizations to implement these standards consistently and systematically from participant recruitment through all study phases. Click Here to Learn More.

The Center’s Multicultural Patient Care Web site provides users with tools and knowledge to help inform encounters with patients from different cultures. Culture and its effects on interpersonal interactions are influenced by a broad spectrum of individual and social qualities, such as race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, class, gender, and socioeconomic status. While none of these cultural contributors stands alone in determining a patient’s “culture,” each one distinctly shapes the individual patient and the interactions you will have with him/her. Click Here to Learn More.