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Inaugural National Minority Health Month Celebration
Key Features: Former Surgeon General David Satcher
and National Center for Cultural Competence Honored; Andrea King Collier, Health Editor
Welcome to Health Power's African American Channel. African Americans have a long and rich history of contributing to the development and strength of this nation, including many outstanding accomplishments in the health field. Yet, African Americans have not benefited from the U S health system as much as mainstream Americans. As a result, African Americans continue to have a number of major health disparities which lead to poorer health and premature death. Health Power has developed a table comparing the burden associated with the ten leading causes of death in the total US population, and among African Americans.
Health Power is committed to helping to eliminate these disparities. Our primary focus is on providing authoritative, user-friendly and culturally relevant health information in order to narrow the following gaps:
- the health awareness communication gap.
- the communication gap with health practitioners.
- the digital divide through skills development.
Health Power’s African American Channel is dedicated to reducing the health disparities. A table comparing the 10 leading causes of death in African-Americans versus the total U.S. population highlights two major contributors to early death in African-Americans which are not among the top 10 in the general population. They are homicide (assault) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS).
Key Channel Features
Recipes by Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight.
Our African American Channel Editor
Javette C. Orgain, M.D, Editor, Health Power African-American Channel and a member of its Professional Advisory Council
Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine; Chair, African-American Health Care Council in Chicago; Co-Chair, Illinois State Board of Health; and Board member, Illinois Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Orgain was the 100th President of the National Medical Association (NMA). She has had extensive International Health experience including in China, South America, East, West and Southern Africa, the Caribbean, France, Cuba, and Laos. Her numerous honors include recognitions in Ebony and Black Enterprise magazines.
She earned her M.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
