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CHMP Film & New Media Event 10.19 “All of Us” a Film by Emily Abt

CHMP’s Health in Film & New Media Series presents:

ALL OF US
a film by Emily Abt

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 – 6pm
CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
MAIN AUDITORIUM, 2nd FLOOR
2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street
New York, NY 10035

Event is FREE.
Seating is limited and RSVPs are essential. Please respond as soon as possible: chmp@hunter.cuny.edu

Q & A to Follow with:
Filmmaker Emily Abt
Hunter Associate Professor and CHMP Senior Fellow Jessie Daniels

….MORE INFO….

ALL OF US: http://purelandpictures.com/All_of_Us_Home.html
In the South Bronx, a young doctor embarks on a research project to find out why black women are being infected with the HIV virus at an alarming rate. Dr. Mehret Mandefro takes us into the lives and relationships of two of her female patients, Chevelle and Tara, as they identify and struggle with the social factors that put them at risk.

CENTER FOR HEALTH, MEDIA & POLICY: http://centerforhealthmediapolicy.com/
The Hunter College Center for Health, Media and Policy is an interdisciplinary initiative for advancing the health of the public and healthy public policies through effective interactions with new and traditional media. The Center is a catalyst for shaping professional and public conversations about health and health care by focusing on the intersection between policy and media. CHMP works with public health advocates and health care professionals to raise their voices to influence policies that will create a more equitable, cost-effective health care system through research and strategic use of media.

THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED WITH:
HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION CENTER: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/shp/centers/hpec/
HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVE: http://www.healthequityinitiative.org/
CUNY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: http://www.cuny.edu/site/sph.html

October 7, 2011

author: Editorial Staff

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Health, HealthCetera, Policy

Critical Conversation: Advanced Care Planning and End of Life Care

Andy Rooney

On Sunday night, Andy Rooney gave his last commentary on “60 Minutes” after being interviewed by Morley Safer about his career. Safer had the courage to ask Rooney about if he thought about death, given his age of 92. Here is the conversation:

Safer: It’s not much fun growing old, is it?

Rooney: I hate it. I mean, I’m gonna die. And–it’d– that doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Safer: Do you think about death?

Rooney: Oh, I do. I do think about it quite a bit.

Safer: And?

Rooney: I don’t like it.

What I’d like to ask Rooney is whether he’s filled out an advance directive and talked with those close to him about his preferences around end-of-life care and choices. I’ll bet he has. He’s a smart man.

Unfortunately, too many of us fail to have these conversations because it’s not something Americans like to talk about. But personal and public conversations about the care we prefer when we’re diagnosed with a terminal or advanced illness are crucial to ensuring that we have access to the care that will support as much as possible how we want to live our lives, including our last days. Without the public conversations, we can’t develop the public and private policies to support such choices in end-of-life care.

On Friday, from 9:00 to 11:30, the American Academy of Nursing is sponsoring a webcast from the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, DC, on “Critical Conversation: Advanced Care Planning and Decision-making–Models that Work.” I’ve had the pleasure of helping to plan this event and hope that you will join us via this link (it will go active at 8:50 AM):

http://mindmedia-live1.wm.llnwd.net/mindmedia_Live1

(Mac users will need to download and install Flip4Mac which can be found online for free at: http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.htm)

I hope you’ll join in on this critical conversation. Maybe Andy Rooney will call in.

Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, Rudin Professor of Nursing and Co-Director, CHMP

October 5, 2011

author: Diana J. Mason

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[caption id="attachment_10328" align="alignleft" width="164"] Andy Rooney[/caption] On Sunday

Health, HealthCetera, Policy

Street Nurses’ Injection Site To Remain Open

Photo by Darren Stone, Times Colonist, Postmedia News

In October of 2010, Fiona Gold and Juanita McGinley were Visiting Scholars at the Center for Health, Media & Policy for a week. They talked about their work in the “Street Nursing” program that does outreach to substance users and sex workers in Vancouver, British Columbia, who are at risk for HIV and death. These nurses also told us the battle they waged to open a “safe injection site” called Insite–a place for substance users to inject their drugs under the watchful eye of nurses and have access to nutrition and support services, as needed. The Conservative government has tried to shut down the site because they don’t understand the concept of harm reduction. Now the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the government can’t shut it down–a win for public health advocates and harm reduction models of care.

October 1, 2011

author: Diana J. Mason

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[caption id="attachment_2811" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Darren