Gracias por visitar el Centro de Disparidades en Salud de Arizona (AHDC) (Por sus siglas en ingles) en línea.

AHDC esta en el Departamento de Servicios de Salud de Arizona dentro de la Oficina de Desarrollo de Sistemas de Salud y es el Designado federal para el estado.

Misión: Promover y proteger la salud y el bienestar de las minorias y poblaciones vulnerables de Arizona, realzando la capacidad del sistema de salud publica para servir efectivamente a las poblaciones minoritarias y reducir asi las disparidades en salud.

Visión: Salud y equidad para todos. Nosotros visionamos un estado donde cada persona tenga igualdad de oportunidades para prevenir y superar las enfermedades y de vivir una larga y saludable vida.

*Los puntos listados a continuación contienen mayor información, y se encuentran escritos en inglés.

New!  Inaugural edition of AHDC's Newsleter: AHDConnection

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Events

• September 15-17, 2008
  14th Annual Latino Conference – Addressing Latino Behavioral Health Requirements in Workforce, Prevention and Early Intervention
  Presented by: Latino Behavioral Health Institute
  Location: Los Angeles Airport Marriott, 5855 W. Century Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
  For more information, please visit: http://www.lbhi.org/ 
   

• September 21-24, 2008
  6th National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
  Co-produced by: Drexel University Center for Health Equality, Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care, and Office of Minority Health
  Location: Minneapolis, MN
  About: Features over 150 presentations during pre-conference intensive training sessions, plenary panels, roundtable sessions, and concurrent workshops, as well as a film festival and a resource center with poster presentations and exhibits.
  For more information, please visit: http://www.diversityrx.org/ccconf
   

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

                                                 --George Bernard Shaw
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