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(Salt Lake City, UT) – The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) Center for Multicultural Health (CMH) is pleased to announce the 2008 Qualitative Report: Public Health Messages from Utah’s Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations. The report describes 17 community focus group discussions about health with 180 members of some of Utah’s most prominent racial and ethnic minority communities: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Pacific Islanders. 

 

UDOH spent several weeks interviewing the groups about their attitudes on health insurance, medical care, health risks like HIV/AIDS and tobacco use, and about UDOH marketing efforts to reach their communities with helpful information.

 

“We began this project over a year ago to get insight into Utah minority health issues beyond the usual data and statistics,” said Owen Quiñonez, Director, CMH, UDOH.  “Through this process, we’ve achieved communication between public health workers and minority community members, analyzed health needs, and made plans for addressing health disparities.”

 

In response, UDOH developed We heard you: Letters from Public Health Workers to the Multicultural Communities of Utah, which details how UDOH employees intend to incorporate suggestions from multicultural community members into health programs. The document also explains what public health is already doing to address those, and lists the  limitations that preclude them from implementing all community recommendations.

 

The 2008 project is the first time public health workers have written back to the multicultural communities to share how they plan to use the study results to improve health care for the groups.

 

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2008 qualitative report:

 public health messages from Utah's racial and ethnic populations

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