Melissa J. Herrmann

Public Response to Community Mitigation Measures for Pandemic Influenza

Results from a national survey indicated that most persons would follow public health officials’ guidelines.

Disparities In Physician Care: Experiences And Perceptions Of A Multi-Ethnic America

This 2007 Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey of 4,334 randomly selected U.S. adults compared perceptions of the quality of physician care among fourteen racial and ethnic groups with those of whites. On each measure examined, at least five and as many as eleven subgroups perceived their care to be significantly worse than care for whites. In many instances, subgroups were at least fifteen percentage points more negative than whites. This was true for Central/South Americans, Chinese Americans, and Korean Americans on five of seven measures. Many of the differences remained after socioeconomic characteristics and language skills were controlled for.

Latinos and Political Party Affiliation.

The past few elections have witnessed an increased contestation of votes across racial and ethnic identities, especially with regard to Latinos. As such, this article explores and reports on the important relationship between Latino identity and political party identification. Using the 2002 National Survey of Latinos (with its representative sample of nearly 3,000 Latinos), it is found that in addition to traditional measures of party identification, Latinos are significantly and considerably more likely to identify themselves as Republican versus Democrats based on their retention of traditional Latino family values and ideals, their self-identification along ethnic lines, and their overall trust of politicians and view of politicians’ concern for Latinos. Implications for future party identification and political strategy are far ranging and discussed.

End-of-Life Care

NHS Employers has launched a short video to explain how staff at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Broughton House Care Home collaborate in the delivery of end of life care training. Rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission for its end of life care services, the trust excels in supporting shared learning and reciprocal training through one-to-one education, role modelling, e-learning and classroom-based learning. A still from the video is shown above.