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Online Resouces

OSR (Office of Survey Research)
The Office of Survery Research at The University of Texas has been providing service to faculty at UT and other university, state agencies and non-profit organizations since 1986. OSR can provide any or all of the following services for research projects that have a focus group research component.

  • Focus Group Research Design
  • Recruitment of Participants (including Spanish speaking participants)
  • Focus Group Moderating (English and Spanish)
  • Double Mirror Focus Group Facilities
  • Digital Recording Equipment
  • Ability to Schedule Daytime, Evening, or Weekend Focus Group Sessions
  • Transcription Service
  • Translation Services of Spanish Focus Group Sessions into English
  • Analysis and Reporting

http://www.utosr.org


Cultural Diversity

  • Culturally Competent Services Bibliography   
    National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University. Contains an annotated bibliography that focuses on assessing current services for cultural sensitivity, developing culturally competent services and providing services in a multicultural health care context. 
    http://www.mchlibrary.info/

  • National Center for Cultural Competence
    The National Center for Cultural Competence is a division of the George Washington University Child Development Center and Center for Child Health and Maternal Health Policy in the Department of Pediatrics. The mission of the Center is to improve the capacity of health care programs, and to develop, implement and evaluate cultural competence in health care delivery systems. An online newsletter provides information related to developing cultural competent programs and policies.
    http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/resources/database.html

  • Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

    This website is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and describes the Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. Areas targeted include infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and immunizations.
    http://www.cdc.gov/omh/AboutUs/disparities.htm

  • Office of Minority Health
    The mission of the Office of Minority Health continues to be to stimulate action at all levels to enhance program outcomes which can lead to the elimination of health disparities. As a follow up, it will continue to post educational and informational materials from the Summit including the full text of the Community Resources Toolkit, speaker contact information, a special issue of Closing the Gap covering Summit highlights, and more.

  • The Diversity Rx Web Site
    Promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities, sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures, Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
    http://www.diversityrx.org

  • Minority Health Project
    This project is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health in collaboration with the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and the Association of Schools of Public Health.
    http://www.minority.unc.edu

  • Texas-Mexico Border Health Services Delivery Project
    Office of Community Outreach & Education
    University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center
    This office assists medically underserved communities along the Texas-Mexico Border and in Greater Houston. The office manages the Texas-Mexico Border Health Projects, works in institutional-community collaborative educational efforts, and serves as a liaison between the University of Texas (UT)-Houston, UT System Administration, and persons and agencies with a community health and primary health care education focus.
    http://www.uthouston.edu/
  • A new on-line journal explores the problems and challenges of health disparities among the diverse populations of the United States. The first two issues are now available online at: http://chdr.unlv.edu/JHDRP.htm

Diabetes

  • National Institute for Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    This office conducts and supports basic and clinical biomedical research related to diabetes, digestive, and kidney diseases. The website provides health information, research funding opportunities, clinical trials, and information about the NIDDK Laboratories, as well as NIDDK reports, testimony, and plans for the future. The link below takes you to a recent news release about the latest NIDDK findings related to diabetes. The home page of the NIDDK can be easily accessed from this link.
    Diet and exercise dramatically delay Type 2 diabetes: Diabetes medication Metformin also effective

Disabilities

  • Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD)
    This Center is dedicated to conducting and disseminating information to expand the life choices of women with disabilities. Has database on psychosocial behaviors of women with physical disabilities compared to women without disabilities, which is the first empirical data on a population of women with physical disabilities ages 18 through 35. Sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Research on Women with Disabilities, Houston, TX.
    http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/crowd

  • Chronic Net
    The national information and referral center for children and youth with disabilities from birth to 22 years of age. Provides information on disease related issues for professionals, educators and families of children and youth with disabilities. Includes data at the national, state and local level, a rolodex of experts and statistics related to chronic diseases in this age group.
    http://www.chronicnet.org

  • Health Promotion for Women with Disabilities Project
    Provides health related information for women with disabilities regardless of the cause for promoting health and improving quality of life. Sponsored by the College of Nursing of Villanova University with a grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb.
    http://www.nursing.villanova.edu/womenwithdisabilities/welcome.htm

Hypertension

  • Premier
    PREMIER is a research study that tested the effects of comprehensive and simultaneous lifestyle changes on blood pressure. Weight loss, exercise, and a healthy diet each reduce blood pressure and control hypertension without medication. PREMIER compared three different programs that combine lifestyle changes to reduce blood pressure.
    This study showed that people with above-optimal blood pressure, including stage 1 hypertension, can successfully make multiple lifestyle changes that lower blood pressure. Together, these lifestyle changes should substantially lower the risk of heart disease and other chronic diseases, including diabetes, osteoporosis, and perhaps cancer. Details of these results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2003.
    This website is for those who want more information about the design and conduct of PREMIER, or who are interested in the materials used in the study. If used or adapted for other projects, please state that the materials were used with permission of the PREMIER collaborative research group.
    http://www.kpchr.org/public/premier/intervention/

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