Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Jazzin’ Healthy: Interdisciplinary Health Outreach Events Focused on Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

  • Published:
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Objectives

Health-related disparities are a significant public health concern. In conjunction with a university concert series, healthcare professionals and students provided education, clinical services, and preventive care using an interdisciplinary approach to a primarily African American cohort. The objective was to assess cardiovascular risk factors and readiness to change health-related behaviors.

Methods

Six outreach events were conducted over 3 years by an interdisciplinary team including pharmacy, medicine, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, public health, optometry, and health information technology. Clinical services, such as health screenings for glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol, and body fat along with counseling on the results and smoking cessation behavioral counseling, were provided. Education initiatives addressed bone health, heart disease, HIV risk, nutrition, and access to physician care. Preventative care included vaccinations and eye exams.

Results

There were 285 participants that were predominantly African American (95.8 %), female (71.5 %), and age within 55–64 years (45.1 %). Hypertension (50.8 %) and obesity (65.1 %) were the most common cardiovascular risk factors. Of those advised to make health behavior changes, 76.4 % reported they planned to make changes within 1 month.

Conclusion

These interdisciplinary outreach events provided health information and access to care in a novel setting and led to a high rate of planned health behavior changes.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Mooney LA, Franks AM. Impact of health screening and education on knowledge of coronary heart disease risk factors. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2011;51(6):713–8.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Go AS, Mozaffarian D, Roger VL, Benjamin EJ, Berry JD, Blaha MJ, et al. (2014) Heart disease and stroke statistics—2014 update. Am Heart Assoc Circ: 128

  3. Cruz-Flores S, Rabinstein A, Biller J, Elkind MSV, Griffith P, Gorelick PB, et al. Racial-ethnic disparities in stroke care: the American experience: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke. 2011;42(7):2091–116.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2015) 2014 National healthcare quality and disparities report http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr14/2014nhqdr.pdf. Accessed 10 June 2015.

  5. World Health Organization. (2011). Closing the gap: policy into practice on social determinants of health: discussion paper http://www.who.int/sdhconference/Discussion-Paper-EN.pdf. Accessed 10 June 2015.

  6. Swider SM. Outcome effectiveness of community health workers: an integrative literature review. Public Health Nurs. 2002;19(1):11–20.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Hess KM, Gabrielian C, Schwartzman E, Law AV. The impact of student pharmacists at health fair events. Am J Pharm Educ. 2012;76(8):149.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  8. Alberto J, Herth K (2009) Interprofessional collaboration within faculty roles; teaching, service, and research. OJIN 14(2).

  9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/pdf-ques/2011brfss.pdf. Accessed 1 February 2015.

  10. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2014) Healthy People 2020. http://www.healthypeople.gov/. Accessed 5 May 2015.

  11. World Health Organization—Department of Human Resources for Health (2010) Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2010/WHO_HRH_HPN_10.3_eng.pdf. Accessed 1 February 2015.

  12. Mays VM, Ly L, Allen E, Young S. Engaging student health organizations in reducing health disparities in underserved communities through volunteerism: developing a student health corps. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2009;20(3):914–28.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  13. Redmon N, Baer HJ, Hicks LS. Health behaviors and racial disparity in BP control in the national heart and nutrition examination survey. Hypertension. 2011;57(3):383–9.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Health Resources and Services Administration (2015). Data and statistics http://www.hrsa.gov/data-statistics/index.html. Accessed 10 February 2015.

  15. Betancourt J, Green A, Carillo J, Ananeh-Firempong O. Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care. Public Health Rep. 2003;118(4):293–302.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  16. American Heart Association (2014) High blood pressure and African Americans http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/UnderstandYourRiskforHighBloodPressure/High-Blood-Pressure-and-African-Americans_UCM_301832_Article.jsp. Accessed 7 June 2015.

  17. Flack JM, Hamaty M. Difficult-to-treat hypertensive populations: focus on African Americans and people with type 2 diabetes. J Hypertn Suppl. 1999;17(1):S19–24.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013) Heart disease behavior. http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/behavior.htm Updated March 12, 2013. Accessed 1 February 2015.

  19. Paul S, Sneed NV. Strategies for behavior change in patients with heart failure. Am J Crit Care. 2004;13(4):305–13.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  20. Zip Code Detailed Profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. City-data.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 8 March. 2016.

  21. Seo DC. Lessons learned from a black and minority health fair’s 15-month follow-up counseling. J Natl Med Assoc. 2011;103(9–10):897–907.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

This study was supported in part by grants from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and the American Heart Association (AHA). The authors would also like to thank Dr. Kumar Mukherjee and Dr. Cindy Arocena Roberson for their assistance with analysis of results.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA

    Diana Isaacs, Lalita Prasad-Reddy, Rebecca Castner, Heather Fields, Deborah Harper-Brown, Sabah Hussein, Charisse L. Johnson, Traiana Mangum & Sneha Srivastava

  2. School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY, 13902-6000, USA

    Angela C. Riley

Authors
  1. Diana Isaacs
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Angela C. Riley
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Lalita Prasad-Reddy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Rebecca Castner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Heather Fields
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Deborah Harper-Brown
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Sabah Hussein
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. Charisse L. Johnson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. Traiana Mangum
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. Sneha Srivastava
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Diana Isaacs.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of Interest

Authors Angela Riley, Lalita Prasad-Reddy, Rebecca Castner, Heather Fields, Deborah Harper-Brown, Sabah Hussein, Charisse L. Johnson, and Traiana Mangum declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Diana Isaacs was the principal investigator of a $1000 grant from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. Sneha Srivastava was the principal investigator of a $4000 grant from the American Heart Association. These grants helped support these community outreach events.

Informed Consent

All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Isaacs, D., Riley, A.C., Prasad-Reddy, L. et al. Jazzin’ Healthy: Interdisciplinary Health Outreach Events Focused on Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 4, 223–232 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-016-0221-4

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-016-0221-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation