Health Workforce Webinar series

The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis is pleased to announce its Health Workforce Webinar series, starting December 11, 2012 at 2:00PM ET. This ongoing series has been created to present health workforce tools and resources for state health workforce planners, researchers, policy makers, and others interested in the health workforce. Webinar topics will include new reports from the National Center as well as presentations from health workforce experts.

Our first Webinar will feature the Area Resource File (http://arf.hrsa.gov/). The ARF is a county-level, health resource information database that contains over 6,000 variables from over 50 sources, including data on more than 15 health professions, health professions shortage areas (HPSAs), health facilities, health expenditures, population demographics, and more. The ARF can now be downloaded for free and new tools and maps have been developed to ease comparisons across counties and states.  LT Nadra Tyus of the National Center will be joined by Al Meltzer and Colleen Goodman of Quality Resource Systems, Inc. (QRS) to demonstrate both the utility of the AHRF website and its data, and how the ARF can inform your state health workforce assessments.

Health Workforce Webinar: The Area Resource File

Date and Time: Tuesday, December 11, 2012; 2:00-3:00PM Eastern

Location: https://hrsa.connectsolutions.com/nchwawebinars/

Dial-in Number: 888-603-8914; passcode: 7298874

Future webinars will take place about every other month. We welcome your suggestions for Webinar topics and any other questions you might have. Please forward this to any interested parties we might have missed. We look forward to your participation.

Edward Salsberg, Director

National Center for Health Workforce Analysis

Widening Gaps in Life Expectancy Reflect Race, Gender, and Education

Although longevity has increased in the United States as a whole since 1990, the gap in life expectancy between Americans with the least and the most education is widening, according to research by scholars in the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society. Two Americas, a report published in Health Affairs, finds that black men with fewer than 12 years of education can expect to live 14.2 fewer years than white men with 16 years of education. Similarly, white women with 16 years of schooling can expect 10.3 more years of life than black women with fewer than 12 years of school. The report stresses the importance of lifelong learning and an improved education system to avoid an increasingly polarized America, where only those with the most education experience longer life spans.

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The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity & Health Equity Conference

Register now: The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity & Health Equity Conference

From September 25 - 26, Los Angeles will host this year's Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity & Health Equity Conference, an opportunity for community leaders, health care professionals, researchers, educators, advocates and policymakers to come together to focus on innovative concepts, methods and research findings on health disparities that impact the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community. Attendees will have the chance to discuss the significance and impact of robust health and health care data for evaluating the status of understudied and underserved populations. A summary of key findings from the Pacific Islander Health Study, a representative survey on the health and health care utilization of Pacific Islander adults and adolescents, will also be available.

Key speakers will include Dr. Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health (Acting), and Dr. David R. Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman & Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies of Sociology at Harvard University.

Registration is available online . Book by Friday, August 31 to receive the discounted rate at the conference hotel . Deadline to submit poster abstracts is August 20.