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Demographic Changes, a View from California Implications for Framing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary (2010) / Chapter Skim
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5 Discussion and Moving Forward
Pages 59-64

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... • ave attitudes about race and expressions of racism changed with H the arrival of new community members? • escribe the major health and health disparity concerns in your D community.
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... Working Across Racial and Ethnic groups Several participants noted the difficulties in bringing together groups that have their own interests to work together. One person suggested finding a common goal to bring groups together, for example, focusing on reducing poverty or supporting immigrant rights.
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... Another key issue to promoting health equity involves thinking about and understanding the need to work with governments at various levels, particularly the federal government, because the federal government is able to offer so many more potential funding opportunities than other levels of government are. One participant noted that the federal government also has power as well as funds.
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... Workshop presenter Genoveva Islas-Hooker echoed the need for immigration reform, adding that until immigration reform happens, immigrants will be vulnerable to exploitation. Workshop presenter Ruben Abrica added that because immigrants typically make very little money, they often operate in an underground economy.
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... Tony Iton further suggested that if the true desire is to reduce or eliminate health disparities, the Healthy People 200 report should be used as the road map. MOVINg FORWARD Nicole Lurie, chair of the roundtable, again outlined the goal of the workshop: to talk about framing and how framing is used to talk about race and racial and ethnic health disparities.
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  • immigration reform
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  • south african
  • american apartheid
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