WORKING TOWARD PROMOTING HEALTH CARE WITH 0% DISPARITIES
DELTA REGIONAL SUMMIT
PROMOTION OF HEALTH CARE ACCESS IN DELTA COMMUNITIES

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

1. Introduction
   

2. Administrative Changes
   

3. Two Presidential Initiatives
   A.  National Health Service Corps Presidential Management Reform
   B.  Health Centers Presidential Initiative
   

4. Initiative to improve Health Care in Mississippi Delta Region - $6.3 Million
   

5. Achieving 100% Access and 0 Health Disparities - 10 Steps
   

6. Moving Toward 100% Access and 0 Health Disparities
   

7. A case of 100% Access, 0 Health Disparities in Buncombe County, North Carolina
   

8. Racial and Ethnic Minorities Disparities Report
   

9. Starting Points for Eliminating Health Disparities
   A.  Infant Mortality
   B.  Cancer Screening and Management
   C.  Cardiovascular Disease
   D.  Diabetes and Complications
   E.  HIV/AIDS Infection Rates and Treatment
   F.  Child and Adult Immunizations
   

10. Healthy People Goals for 2010 - Reducing Infant Mortality
    A.  Reduce fetal and infant deaths during the prenatal periods (28 weeks of gestation to seven days or more after birth) to no more than 4.1 per 1,000 live births.
    B.  Reduce low birth weight (LBW) rate to no more than five percent of all live births
    C.  Increase to at least 90 percent the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy