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(Lhr SaiUi ear iirrl Talks address minority health BY REBECCA PUTTERMAN ASSISTANT STATE A NATIONAL EDITOR There doesn’t need to be a sign on the highway that says, “Ghetto Ahead.’ Poverty-stricken neighborhoods have easily recognizable signs: billboards, broken-down houses. Mom and Pop stores and cinder block churches, community activist Nettie Coad said. Coad, director of the Partnership Project, which aims to undo racism in Guilford County, told a group of public health care professionals Friday that they should actively seek out areas that need assistance to improve minority empowerment in part through access to health care. She said, with audience mem bers nodding, that people outside the community are responsible for limiting development options even though poor residents are blamed for their community's deficiencies. The health problems that result from poverty, culture and the envi ronment were the theme of the 29th annual Minority Health Conference, held at UNC’s Friday Center and sponsored by the UNC School of Public Healths Minority Student Caucus. Coad spoke as one of the 15 experts addressing how certain con ditions can lead to health problems in minority populations. "We re focusing more on the social aspects and not specifically diseases like last year's theme on HIV/AI DS,“ said Janelle Armstrong. Spring Break Is Less than a Week Away... I XANS 1 Get Your Base Tan Before | f° r i You Hit the Beach! ! 510.00 j | tm* t er :** crfW . | lI "bymn7s"** ) | I iHI who’ll make f ?fti‘?EGE V UNC'S COMEDY TEAM? rnIAFDY £ YOU COMPETE or you be the judge L rS Jr rooftopcomedy.com/college I 200®/ y-W CUAB PRESENTS /■) UNC Chapel Hill fill < students perform a r bfW&l , night of live comedy March sth @ 8:00pm O The Union Cabaret Jg' \ V* v '“''N. Hosted by Ryan Singer oSf a second-year public health gradu ate student and co-chairwoman of the event along with Eboni Taylor. “It’s important to take focus not so much on the individual risk factors but on living conditions, stressors and everyday life things that ulti mately impact health," Taylor said. The conference overall empha sized the limitations that poverty and the environment place on minority individuals' access to health care. One of the concurrent discus sions considered the impact, or lack thereof, that state-sponsored health care programs have to minority health care. Jeffery Simms, the commu nity care deputy director of the N.C. Office of Rural Health and Community Care at the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, presented a long list of public health services that he termed inadequate. ‘lt’s only a drop in the bucket to what we need as far as being able to address the uninsured problem in North Carolina," he said. Simms encouraged the public health students and professionals in the audience to not only contin ue their public service jobs but to engage in political activism to keep the minorities' health insurance challenges on the state's legislative agenda. “You as the local community can work to make sure this stays as a priority and continue to put a face on these fundings," he said. He said building local programs and using evidence to prove that they are effective could improve the likelihood of continued govern ment support. Break-off groups raised issues relating to illiteracy, immigrant health, cancer disparities, com munity determinants and environ mental inequality. They stressed the importance of small, local initiatives, such as school-based health centers and community workshops, to combat those and other community health problems aggravated by racial dis parity. “You have to be persistent" said Leslie Morris, director of commu nity relations for the New Jersey Primary Care Association, in answer to participants' concerns about funding, liability and nega tive stigmas surrounding their own minority health initiatives. “You start where you start. We always tell people to start where you can." Contact the State t£ National Editor at stntdexk(a unc.edu. fl Serving unc UOGURjT- 11- since Y pUm P Jr -i OQ 106 W. Franklin St • * 942-PUMP • www.yogurtpump.com Mon • Sat. 1 t’iJOißj*) T2p*ri-1 Ipriv. News National and World News FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Crucial primaries spur sharp attacks SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Hillary Clinton turned her atten tion Saturday to the mechanics of delivering voters to the polls in a round of primaries Tuesday that could hold the key to the future of her presidential ambitions. She also sharpened her criti cism of Barack Obama. “His entire campaign Ls based on a speech he gave at an anti-war rally in 2002," Clinton told reporters. “The speech was not followed up by action, which is part of a pattern that we have seen repeatedly Obama fired back at rally in Providence, R. 1., telling support ers: "Real change isn’t voting for George Bush's war in Iraq and then telling the American people it was actually a vote for more diplomacy when you start run ning for president" MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008 Putin could maintain a central role through his hand-picked successor MOSCOW (AP) - Dmitry Medvedev, the man Vladimir Putin hand-picked to be his suc cessor, scored a crushing victory in Russia's presidential elections Sunday, a result that was long anticipated but that still raises questions about who will run this resurgent global power. Medvedev was on course to win about 70 percent of the vote. He is expected to rule in concert with his mentor, an arrangement Hamas raises stakes in rocket attacks ASHKELON. Israel (AP) - Residents of thus beachside city are still coming to terms with being on the front lines of Israel's battle against Hamas militants. A dozen long-range rockets slammed into Ashkelon last week end, marking a significant turning point in the conflict and compel ling Israel to strike back hard. j now'OPEN ij i| CIIICK-l haiimaf jj ;; Wing Sauces fl * ** <> OM Ttm | Gourmet < > o| Favorites X flavors < > n,-- m J j Mustard jiff 40< wings 'ij; <| • Any order of ' * Monday-Wednesday *-! i:| $lO or more | | Min. wings* Bteu Cheese Extra |i: i! JSSL. SK: ,°r ™E. Franklin St j i j; LATE! Thurs Sat 11am-3am (919) 929-0393 that could see Putin calling the shots despite his constitutionally subordinate position as Russia's prime minister. Medvedev, 42, the young est Russian ruler since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, is expect ed to heed Putin’s advice, con tinue his assertive course with the West, maintain state control over Russia's mineral riches and freeze out real opposition move ments. Palestinian militants fire rock ets nearly daily at Israeli border towns near Gaza. But by reaching Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 about 11 miles north of Gaza. Hamas raised the stakes. It is one of the largest cities in southern Israel, home to a college and strategic installations like an electric plant and a water purification plant. 7
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