UH Cancer Center Hotline: the training and education program of the University of Guam/University of Hawai'i Cancer Center Partnership
Hawaii Med J. 2011 Nov;70(11 Suppl 2):54-5.NO ABSTRACTPMID:22235161 | PMC:PMC3254219 (Source: Hawaii Medical Journal)
Source: Hawaii Medical Journal - January 12, 2012 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hali R Robinett Todd Ames John A Peterson Helen Jd Whippy Carl-Wilhelm Vogel Source Type: research
The health and wellbeing of the Pacific indigenous peoples
Hawaii Med J. 2011 Nov;70(11 Suppl 2):3.NO ABSTRACTPMID:22235149 | PMC:PMC3254228 (Source: Hawaii Medical Journal)
Source: Hawaii Medical Journal - January 12, 2012 Category: General Medicine Authors: Neal Palafox Source Type: research
Health care for Micronesians and constitutional rights
Hawaii Med J. 2011 Nov;70(11 Suppl 2):4-8.ABSTRACTUnder the Compacts of Free Association (COFA), people from the Freely Associated States--the Republic of Palau (ROP), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)--have been migrating to the United States in increasing numbers. In 1996, Congress passed broad welfare reform (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act) which limited certain federal benefits previously available to COFA migrants, including Medicaid benefits. Prior to July 2010, the State of Hawai'i had continued to include COFA migrants under its...
Source: Hawaii Medical Journal - January 12, 2012 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dina Shek Seiji Yamada Source Type: research
Social determinants of health for Native Hawaiian children and adolescents
CONCLUSIONS: The significant barriers facing Native Hawaiian children and adolescents achieving their full potential constitute a challenge to the fulfillment of the human right to health. Future research needs to more fully articulate the linkage between the health status of Native Hawaiian children and adolescents, the determinants of that status, and the requirements of the human right to health. Needed particularly are longitudinal studies which provide data that may link multigenerational trauma and discrimination to poverty and other factors, ultimately producing healthy inequity for Native Hawaiian children and adol...
Source: Hawaii Medical Journal - January 12, 2012 Category: General Medicine Authors: David M K I Liu Christian K Alameda Source Type: research
An innovative approach to developing a cultural competency curriculum; efforts at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Native Hawaiian Health
DISCUSSION: As cultural competency training is a relatively new, rapidly developing field, there is no consensus on how to teach it. The department decided early on to focus on a variety of methodologies using Native Hawaiian health as the curriculum's foundation. Many different paths were taken toward the development of the present curriculum which utilized different components within the medical school's curriculum. This paper describes the process and development of a cultural competency training curriculum at the University of Hawai'i medical school. Recent literature recommendations by experts in the field reinforce t...
Source: Hawaii Medical Journal - January 12, 2012 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dee-Ann L Carpenter Martina L Kamaka C Malina Kaulukukui Source Type: research
