scholarly journals Mentoring in Medicine (MIM): Motivating and enabling disadvantaged youth to become the next generation of minority health professionals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Lynne M. Holden
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Minority Health ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Science Careers ◽  
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Hard To Reach Populations ◽  
The U.S

Mentoring in Medicine, Inc (MIM) is a nonprofit health and science youth development organization based in the Bronx, NY. Founded in 2006 by three physicians and an engineer- trained entrepreneur, MIM’s organizational goal is to expose socioeconomically disadvantaged students to the wide variety of health and science careers and to increase the health literacy of their communities. It is aligned with the outreach mission of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) whose former Director, Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D., fostered an enduring relationship. Technical assistance, evaluation, and financial support provided under his leadership helped MIM to become a nationally recognized organization leading the field to diversify health careers and to increase health literacy in often hard to reach populations. Through live and virtual programming, MIM has impacted nearly 58,000 students, parents, and educators in urban epicenters in the U.S. The MIM Team has helped 503 students who were discouraged to build a competitive application and matriculate in health professional school. MIM has 88 press features highlighting its work in the community.

User-Oriented Healthcare Translation and Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 430-451
Author(s):  
Meng Ji ◽  
Kristine Sørensen ◽  
Pierrette Bouillon
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged ◽  
Disadvantaged Populations ◽  
Medical Translation ◽  
Medical Interpreting ◽  
Literacy Research

Healthcare translation provides a useful and powerful intervention tool to facilitate the engagement with migrants with diverse language, cultural, and health literacy backgrounds. The development of culturally effective and patient-oriented healthcare translation resources has become increasingly pressing. In this chapter, the authors explore, firstly, patient-focused and culturally effective healthcare and medical translation methodologies by integrating insights from health literacy research and corpus-based textual readability evaluation and, secondly, user-oriented criteria which can be used in the development and evaluation of new medical interpreting technologies with a view to enhancing the usability among patients from refugee, migrant, or other socioeconomically disadvantaged populations.

scholarly journals Overview of PROMISE

2020 ◽  
pp. 216514342098045
Author(s):  
David E. Emenheiser ◽  
Corinne Weidenthal ◽  
Selete Avoke ◽  
Marlene Simon-Burroughs
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Social Security Administration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Health And Human Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE), a study of 13,444 randomly assigned youth and their families, includes six model demonstration projects and a technical assistance center funded through the U.S. Department of Education and a national evaluation of the model demonstration projects funded through the Social Security Administration. The Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services and the Executive Office of the President partnered with the Department of Education and Social Security Administration to develop and monitor the PROMISE initiative. This article provides an overview of PROMISE as the introduction to this special issue of Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals.

Health Literacy

2014 ◽  
pp. 280-307
Author(s):  
Glenda Denson Knight
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Limited Health Literacy ◽  
Improvement Strategies ◽  
Limited Health ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Barriers To Health ◽  
The U.S

The design of the U.S. healthcare system along with increasing expectations of individuals create barriers to health care. One barrier is limited Health Literacy (HL). This essential healthcare ingredient is often disregarded (Murphy-Knoll, 2007). There is debate concerning the definition of HL (Sorensen, Van den Broucke, Fullam, Doyle, Pelikan, Slonska, & Brand, 2012). Still, there is consensus that HL is necessary for quality healthcare (Parker & Gazmararian, 2003) and that HL deficiencies must be addressed. Limited HL independently contributes to poorer health status, greater risk of hospitalizations, and increased likelihood of mortality (Hanchate, Ash, Gazmararian, Wolf, & Paasche-Orlow, 2008; Jeppesen, Coyle, & Miser, 2009). Much is known about HL. Still, few advancements have been made due to gaps between what we know about HL, and the application of that knowledge (Ishikiawa & Kiuchi, 2010). The purpose of this chapter is to provide a HL overview and recommend improvement strategies.

Health literacy among visiting college students in the U.S.: A pilot study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Alice Noblin ◽  
Meghan Hufstader Gabriel ◽  
Kendall Cortelyou-Ward ◽  
Khristen Holmes
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Exploring Religiousness and Hope: Examining the Roles of Spirituality and Social Connections among Salvadoran Youth

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Ebstyne King ◽  
Jennifer Medina Vaughn ◽  
Yeonsoo Yoo ◽  
Jonathan M. Tirrell ◽  
Elizabeth M. Dowling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Relational Developmental Systems Metatheory ◽  
Compassion International ◽  
The Relationship

Given the strong link between religiousness and hope, we sought to further understand the relations of these potentially powerful resources for youth living in adversity. Although existing research suggests that religiousness might be associated with adolescent hope via spirituality and social connections, few studies have tested models that integrate both. Thus, as applied psychologists, the aim of this paper was to test a theoretical model in the lives of youth. Drawing on a Relational Developmental Systems metatheory, we sought to further elucidate the relations between religiousness and hope and to explore how involvement in the faith-based youth-development organization, Compassion International (CI), might facilitate character strengths like hope. In order to do so, we tested whether religiousness was directly and indirectly (via spirituality and social connection) related to hopeful future expectations, using a sample of 9–15-year-olds in El Salvador (M = 11.6 years; n = 888), half of whom were involved in CI and the other half of whom were a locally matched counterfactual sample. Structural equation models revealed that higher levels of religiousness were directly and indirectly associated with higher levels of hope in relation to higher levels of spirituality and social connections among these youth. CI-supported youth reported significantly higher levels of religiousness than the counterfactual sample. Findings suggest that the relationship between religiousness and hope is best understood when it incorporates youth’s spirituality and social connections associated with religion.

Race and Blackness: A Thematic Review of Communication Challenges Confronting the Black Community Within the U.S. Health Care System

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Comfort Tosin Adebayo ◽  
Kimberly Walker ◽  
Maren Hawkins ◽  
Oluwatoyin Olukotun ◽  
Leslie Shaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Cultural Safety ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Care System

Effective communication is integral to the patient–provider relationship. Yet, as a result of structural factors that ignore the unique health care needs of different populations of patients who identify as Black—both African American and African immigrants—are confronted with communication challenges during health care seeking encounters. Using cultural safety as a framework, in this article, we thematically review communication challenges specifically experienced by patients of African descent in the U.S. health care system. In our review, we focus on complications that might arise from discrimination, mistrust, health literacy, and impacts of culture and language barriers on health literacy. In conclusion, we offer recommendations for improving the health care experiences and potential health outcomes for this population, through nursing care and health care delivery.

scholarly journals Family Oncology Caregivers and Relational Health Literacy

Challenges ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Goldsmith ◽  
Sachiko Terui
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Relational Health ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Caregiver Health ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The U.S

Nearly one-third of the U.S. population provides unpaid, informal caregiving to a loved one or friend. Caregiver health literacy involves a complex set of actions and decisions, all shaped by communication. Existing definitions depict health literacy as individuals’ skills in obtaining, understanding, communicating, and applying health information to successfully navigate the health management process. One of the major problems with existing definitions of health literacy is that it disproportionately places responsibilities of health literacy on patients and caregivers. In this conceptual piece, we define and introduce a new model of Relational Health Literacy (RHL) that emphasizes the communicative aspects of health literacy among all stakeholders (patients, caregivers, providers, systems, and communities) and how communication functions as a pathway or barrier in co-creating health care and health management processes. Future directions and recommendations for model development are described.

Differentiation of three species of Neoaplectan (Nematoda: Rhabditida), grown axenically

Parasitology ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
False Negative ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Rabbit Kidney ◽  
Rockefeller Institute ◽  
Solid Media ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Made In

Three species of the genus Neoaplectana, nematodes from insects, when grown axenically, could be differentiated consistently by morphological, cultivational and serological criteria.All three species were cultivated for consecutive generations on solid media such as a rabbit kidney slice at the bottom of an enriched agar slant. In axenic cultures with various liquid media, including some which were chemically defined, the ensheathed larvae of N. glaseri matured and produced offspring which in turn developed and reproduced; N. dutkii (‘DD-136’) larvae matured, but a new generation did not develop; the majority of N. carpocapsae larvae survived but did not mature. Living N. glaseri, used as a source of antigens to detect homologous antibodies, gave fewer cross-reactions than preparations of sonicated and frozen worms, and fewer false negative reactions than used cultivation media.Morphological differences between the three species in cultures are described.This work was done at The Rockefeller Institute in the department of Dr William Trager, with the technical assistance of June I. Schloemer and, subsequently, Kristin L. Schmidtchen. Preliminary morphological descriptions were made in association with M. B. H. Chitwood of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Parasitological Laboratory in Maryland. The author and work were supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, 5-K3-AI-9522 and AI-04842.

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