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Barbara D Daniels
UCONJ 450
Seattle Campus
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Dear UCONJ 450 Class Participants,
Welcome to Healthcare for the Underserved! We are very excited that you have decided to join us for winter quarter. The class is truly interdisciplinary, and we have undergraduates, PhD candidates, and students from the schools of nursing, public health, pharmacy, social work, and medicine. We hope that you enjoy the chance to work with your peers from other disciplines as we explore issues surrounding underserved healthcare.
Our first class session will take place tomorrow evening, Tuesday, January 8, from 6-7:50pm. We will meet in BB1404, which is in the hospital. We will use the first 50-minutes to give you a brief introduction to the class and to healthcare for the underserved. Following a 10-minute break, we will have a lecture and discussion on healthcare and homelessness by Dr. Doug Paauw, Professor in the Department of Medicine in the UW School of Medicine.
While there are no explicitly assigned readings in this course, we suggest that you may find the following resources helpful in preparation for tomorrow's class:
1. Healthy People 2010 is the guiding document for the federal government's efforts to improve quality of care and address health disparities. The document addresses specific disease groups and populations and lays out the health goals of the nation: http://www.healthypeople.gov/
2. The federal government's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is the lead federal agency in providing resources and programs for underserved populations. Community Health Centers are administered through this agency: www.hrsa.gov
3. Kaiser family foundation. An excellent source of information and data on the nation's uninsured: www.kff.org
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow night!
Sincerely, Your UCONJ 450 Course Chairs: Christina Arredondo, MS-II, University of Washington School of Medicine Kristina Rudd, MS-II, University of Washington School of Medicine
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