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2006 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 450
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(5) Serve as a clearinghouse and resource library for information about
minority health and health disparities data, strategies, services, and programs that
address minority health and health disparities issues;
(6) Develop a strategic plan to improve public services and programs
targeting minorities:
(7) Obtain funding and, contingent upon funding, provide grants to
community-based organizations and historically black colleges and universities to
conduct special research, demonstration, and evaluation projects for targeted at-risk
racial and ethnic minority populations and to support ongoing community-based
programs that are designed to reduce or eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities
in the State;
(8) Develop criteria for the awarding of grants for programs that are
designed to improve minority health care;
(9) Review existing laws and regulations to ensure that they facilitate
the provision of adequate health care to the minorities of this State;
(10) Recommend to the Secretary any additions or changes to existing
laws and regulations designed to facilitate the adequate provision of health care to
minorities in this State;
(11) Identify and review health promotion and disease prevention
strategies relating to the leading health causes of death and disability among
minority populations;
(12) Develop and implement model public and private partnerships in
racial and ethnic minority communities for health awareness campaigns and to
improve the access, acceptability, and use of public health services:
(13) Develop recommendations for the most effective means of providing
outreach to racial and ethnic minority communities throughout the State to ensure
their maximum participation in publicly funded health benefits programs;
(14) Develop a statewide plan for increasing the number of racial and
ethnic minority health care professionals which includes recommendations for the
financing mechanisms and recruitment strategies necessary to carry out the plan;
(15) Work collaboratively with universities and colleges of medicine,
nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry in this State and other health care professional
training programs to develop courses with cultural competency, sensitivity, and
health literacy, that are designed to address the problem of racial and ethnic
disparities in health care access, utilization, treatment decisions, quality, and
outcomes;
(16) Work collaboratively with the Maryland Health Care Disparities
Initiative, the Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, the
University of Maryland Disparity Project, the Monumental City Medical Society.
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