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| Posted: 14 Oct 2010 10:55 AM PDT WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross' health equities pilot is one of seven programs recognized this year with a Best of Blue Clinical Distinction Award. The pilot, developed for Hispanics and African Americans with diabetes, is being recognized for its innovative and successful approach to improving access to high quality, safe and affordable health care for Anthem members. The Best of Blue Clinical Distinction Program was developed by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and the Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy. The purpose of the Clinical Distinction Awards is to highlight the Blue Cross Blue Shield plans nationally that demonstrate innovation, efficiency and potential for replication. The plan's pilot, "Bridging Cultural Health Care Gaps: Diabetes," took this honor, along with programs from two other Anthem-affiliated health plans in Indiana and Maine. "We know that ethnically diverse populations experience a higher prevalence of certain diseases and worse quality of care than whites regardless of the type of insurance they have or whether they have insurance at all," said Terri Amano, senior product manager, Anthem's Programs in Clinical Excellence. "With this pilot, our goal was to find ways to provide useful and relevant information tailored to the cultures of our Hispanic and African American members. This information helps them better control their diabetes and improve their quality of life." In asking members their opinions and researching behaviors and attitudes, Anthem found that aspects of culture -- food, family, faith and fear of disease complications, such as amputations and blindness, were factors that influence behaviors and attitudes toward health care among African Americans and Hispanics. These issues were explored in many of the educational materials. The pilot focused on creative and culturally appropriate ways to communicate with members -- including providing information on how members could reach out to local churches to share these messages with others and providing bilingual Spanish print fotonovelas, a photographic comic strip version of a soap opera. The pilot also provided diabetes educational materials that included ways to substitute ingredients in favorite ethnic meals to make them healthier.This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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| Hispanic center readies unveiling of fresco mural - Times Union Posted: 08 Oct 2010 12:18 AM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — On the inner walls of a torreon, or watchtower, standing vigil at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico fresco painter Frederico Vigil has created a fresco of contradictions defining the Hispanic world. Symbolically, the watchtower and the fresco advise Hispanics to be vigilant, but also to look inside of themselves to find out who they are and where they came from, center Director Estevan Rael-Galvez said. Eight years in the making, the 4,000-square-foot fresco offers glimpses of a world history marked by epic, world-changing heroic events, but also by centuries of conflict and contradictions. The fresco will be officially unveiled to the public on Oct. 10, as part of a free community open house celebrating the 10th anniversary of the NHCC. The center, which presents a variety of Hispanic visual, performing and literary arts, opened in the heart of Albuquerque's historic Barelas neighborhood in October 2000. Working to complete final touches on the fresco before the celebration, Vigil says the iconology in the fresco was selected after a consultation with seven historians, and a two-year public hearing process, begun 10 years ago. Vigil, a Santa Fe artist, is leading a renaissance of the ancient art of fresco, having done 12 major fresco murals in New Mexico since 1984. What is being called the torreon fresco unquestionably is Vigil's crowning achievement, said former New Mexico first lady Clara Apodaca, who is president and CEO of the center's foundation. "It is the crown jewel of the center, the city and the state," she said, noting that the creation tells the story of Hispanidad, or the Hispanic World. The fresco offers glimpses of European, African, Asian and American connections, influences and events that helped shape Hispanidad. Vigil for his part chooses to interpret the iconology as a testament to Hispanic culture, values, diversity and to world unity. Modest and soft-spoken, the artist sometimes called the Hispanic Michelangelo says the rigors of painting the fresco over the last eight years challenged his personal commitment and endurance. "It has engulfed my life," he says. Taught the art of fresco by teachers who were apprentices to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, Vigil says he pursued the art because of its tradition and its permanence. The time-consuming process results in the image being absorbed into wet plaster, and no flaking of paint, producing an image that is essentially permanent, with some images lasting thousands of years. Vigil said his eight-year odyssey also has educated and matured him. "As I painted, I learned more of our story as Hispanics," he says. "The most important thing I learned is that we as Hispanics are 'mestisaje,' all interrelated, and that even if you look at all humanity, we learn that we are all brothers." Rael-Galvez has called the fresco "a magnificent work in progress," quoting Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano who said identity is no museum piece, but "is instead the astonishing synthesis of the contradictions of everyday life." The fresco, he says, points to all the contradictions. The anniversary celebration begins with a parade at noon at Fourth Street and Central Downtown, proceeding along Fourth Street to the center, where there will be local entertainment, hands-on art making for children and families, dance classes and public tours of the torreon. The celebration continues with tours from 1:30-4 p.m., including visits to the collections storage area of the center's art museum, operations of the Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts and the special collections and archives of the library and genealogy center. The day ends with local entertainment on the center's Plaza Mayor and the cutting of a large birthday cake for the community. "Building upon the imaginative aspirations that led to our opening a decade ago, a tremendous amount of creative energy has gone into the NHCC for 10 years," Rael-Galvez says. "We invite our friends and neighbors to this event as we move forward to imagine and create the next promising decade as a community." Since the NHCC opened in 2000, more than 30 exhibitions have been mounted in the art museum and more than 1,000 artists and scholars have performed and presented in the theaters and concert halls. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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