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| Bulletin #7 - Broadcast and Campaign Updates |
April 16, 2008 |
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Collateral Damage:Thousands of miles away in the Marshall Islands and closer to home in Springdale, Arkansas, we see how U.S. military bases, foreign policy, and globalization can impact people's health in unanticipated ways.
Not Just a Paycheck: We travel first to western Michigan, then to Vastervik, Sweden, to see how job insecurity and layoffs can affect a community's health--and how public policies could protect it.
Los Angeles broadcast update:
- KCET has rescheduled the series to Saturdays, 9:00 to 11:00 pm, May 17 and May 24 (two hours per night).
- KCLS, the LA education station, Channel 58 (digital channel 41), will run the series at 8:00 pm Monday evenings, beginning April 28 (then May 5, 12 & 19).
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Partner Profile: The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) works to ensure that all Californians have access to quality health care and can live healthy lives. As the only multicultural health advocacy organization in the state, we identify and advance public policies that address racial and ethnic health disparities.
CPEHN is hosting a series of convenings throughout California to develop place-based policy solutions to achieve health equity, and using clips from Unnatural Causes as the conversation starter, followed by a panel of local experts sharing their advocacy experiences. The convenings have been successful in stimulating community engagement in land-use and planning decisions.
- In San Diego, participants developed a plan to hold their City Council members accountable to addressing high asthma rates.
- In Fresno, which has some of the worst air quality in the country, attendees wanted to make sure all schools use the flag system developed to notify families and studen
ts of the daily air quality.
- At the Oakland event, a group of community members decided to engage their local policymakers to limit street use by large delivery trucks to reduce air and sound pollution in their neighborhood.
CPEHN is also sponsoring a bill, AB 1472 (Leno), the Healthy Places Act, which supports the use of Health Impact Assessments to ensure that our communities promote health.
Contact Ruben Cantu to learn about upcoming California convenings, rcantu@cpehn.org
To submit your partner profile, please send us a description (225 words or less) of how your organization is using the series to educate, mobilize and advocate for change.
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Selected Campaign Activities
Birmingham, AL
A series of events brought together scholars, faith-based communities, health practitioners and elected officials throughout Jefferson County, AL, to engage in conversation about the root causes of health inequities.
- The University of Alabama, Birmingham Annual Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) hosted the annual Health Disparities Research Symposium sponsored by NCMHD/NIH and showed clips from the series to foster discussion on what a health equity framework means in clinical and community-based research.
- The Birmingham Place Matters team, part of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Health Policy Institute Place Matters Initiative, brought together community members for a town hall meeting at the historical 16th Street Baptist Church to discuss how zip code affects health outcomes and begin to identify existing resources and assets to move toward change.
- Jefferson County Department of Health hosted the 2008 Health Action Summit drawing on the "Roadmap to Health" that outlines five strategies to improve health outcomes, including addressing the social determinants of health.
Washington, DC
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the National Minority Quality Forum in cooperation with the CBC Health Braintrust hosted the Leadership Summit Agenda: Health Equity and Justice Now! The series was screened as part of a panel exploring the myriad social determinants of health that sustain health inequities throughout the continuum of life.
California Newsreel and Vital Pictures were honored to accept the CBC Health Braintrust award in excellence in journalism presented by Congresswoman Donna Christensen.
Oklahoma City, OK
The Oklahoma Health Equity Campaign screened an episode of the documentary and held a panel discussion about health inequalities in the Sooner State. Presenters stressed that health involves more than germs and prescriptions. Health, they said, involves transportation, education, economics and public safety. The audience represented a wide variety of sectors including and going beyond health. Learn about future statewide meetings.
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The following organizations are hosting events in the coming weeks:
- Tarrant County Public Health (Fort Worth, TX)
- Healthcare Georgia Foundation and 100 Black Men of Georgia (Atlanta, GA)
- Douglas County Health Department (Omaha, NE)
- Multnomah County Health Equity Initiative (Portland, OR)
- National Healthy Start Annual Conference (Washington, DC)
- Columbus Public Health, West Side Community Health Advisory Committee, and Columbus Medical Association Foundation (Columbus, OH)
- Health Education Council's National Network on Tobacco Prevention & Poverty and the National African American Tobacco Education Network (Detroit, MI)
- University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine (Kansas City, MO)
- Healthy Connections Network (Akron, OH)
- California Black Health Network (San Diego, CA)
- California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (Los Angeles, CA)
- CT Women's Health Campaign / Permanent Commission on the Status of Women (Hartford, CT)
- New York State Association of County Health Officials (Albany & Coopertown)
Consult our online events calendar for more information.
Interested in hosting your own event? Check out the UNNATURAL CAUSES Action Toolkit and Discussion Guide.
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