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11/01/2005
Health Disparities in a Hip Hop Context
As Health Care Gets Grayer and Browner, Kaiser Permanente's 28th Annual Diversity Conference Examines the Next Generation of Health Care Issues
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A special appearance by one of America's most versatile actors, a perspective on the connection between hip-hop culture and health care, and a Socratic dialogue on widening health disparities will highlight Kaiser Permanente's 28th annual National Diversity Conference being held November 2-4 at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel.
B. D. Wong, the acclaimed actor best known to television viewers as forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang on NBC's Law and Order: SVU, will share personal insights about racial self-image, race-based rejection, and the "model-minority myth". Kevin Powell, hip-hop poet, journalist, essayist, and widely considered "one of America's most brilliant young cultural critics" will look at today's hip hop culture and its implications for health care. Acclaimed Harvard legal scholar, author and orator, Charles Ogletree, Jr., will lead a distinguished panel in a discussion on widening health disparities in the United States. The discussion will be taped by Fred Friendly Seminars for distribution, and will be webcast by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In addition, the conference will explore:
-- Religious diversity in the workplace
-- Cultural perspectives on weight
-- Implications of demographic changes -- the graying of health care
providers and patients, and the browning of the US population
-- Cultural perceptions of pain. Is there a difference?
-- The successful blending of alternative and western medicine to meet
patient needs
-- Cross-cultural mentoring
This highly popular event, Kaiser Permanente's premier celebration of diversity as a core value and key business strategy, is the organization's longest-running conference. The annual 2 1/2 day event hosts an impressive array of experts on leading-edge diversity issues, concepts, practices and trends in diversity management, culturally competent care delivery, workforce diversity and marketing to diverse populations.
"Kaiser Permanente has long been recognized nationally for its commitment to diversity, and as a leader in the development of culturally competent care and linguistic proficiency programs," said Ronald Knox, vice president and chief diversity officer. "This conference offers extraordinary learning opportunities, and is a showcase for creativity and innovative approaches."
Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit, group practice program headquartered in Oakland, Calif. Kaiser Permanente serves more than 8.3 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Today it encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their subsidiaries, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups. Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 142,000 technical, administrative and clerical employees and caregivers, and more than 12,000 physicians representing all specialties.
http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/
Source: Kaiser Permanente
CONTACT: Beverly Hayon of Kaiser Permanente, +1-510-271-6437, or
Beverly.Hayon@kp.org
Web site: http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A special appearance by one of America's most versatile actors, a perspective on the connection between hip-hop culture and health care, and a Socratic dialogue on widening health disparities will highlight Kaiser Permanente's 28th annual National Diversity Conference being held November 2-4 at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel.
B. D. Wong, the acclaimed actor best known to television viewers as forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang on NBC's Law and Order: SVU, will share personal insights about racial self-image, race-based rejection, and the "model-minority myth". Kevin Powell, hip-hop poet, journalist, essayist, and widely considered "one of America's most brilliant young cultural critics" will look at today's hip hop culture and its implications for health care. Acclaimed Harvard legal scholar, author and orator, Charles Ogletree, Jr., will lead a distinguished panel in a discussion on widening health disparities in the United States. The discussion will be taped by Fred Friendly Seminars for distribution, and will be webcast by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In addition, the conference will explore:
-- Religious diversity in the workplace
-- Cultural perspectives on weight
-- Implications of demographic changes -- the graying of health care
providers and patients, and the browning of the US population
-- Cultural perceptions of pain. Is there a difference?
-- The successful blending of alternative and western medicine to meet
patient needs
-- Cross-cultural mentoring
This highly popular event, Kaiser Permanente's premier celebration of diversity as a core value and key business strategy, is the organization's longest-running conference. The annual 2 1/2 day event hosts an impressive array of experts on leading-edge diversity issues, concepts, practices and trends in diversity management, culturally competent care delivery, workforce diversity and marketing to diverse populations.
"Kaiser Permanente has long been recognized nationally for its commitment to diversity, and as a leader in the development of culturally competent care and linguistic proficiency programs," said Ronald Knox, vice president and chief diversity officer. "This conference offers extraordinary learning opportunities, and is a showcase for creativity and innovative approaches."
Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit, group practice program headquartered in Oakland, Calif. Kaiser Permanente serves more than 8.3 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Today it encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their subsidiaries, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups. Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 142,000 technical, administrative and clerical employees and caregivers, and more than 12,000 physicians representing all specialties.
http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/
Source: Kaiser Permanente
CONTACT: Beverly Hayon of Kaiser Permanente, +1-510-271-6437, or
Beverly.Hayon@kp.org
Web site: http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/
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