Index to existing major contributions to the Blog (June,2010-June 1, 2011)

INDEX to materials on the blog, its Archives Section (to be found by clicking on "Archives" on the Right side of the Home Page),and The Planned Segments section (to be found by clicking on "Planned Segments" under "Home" listed in the upper right hand corner of the home page).
TO BE FOUND UNDER "PLANNED SEGMENTS:
1. introductory comments to each of the ten separate planned seminars or segments;
2. included in "first seminar" is a commentary on Dr. Howard Koh's NEJM (September 2010)article on Healthy People 2010 and his foreshadowing of Health People 2020;
3. included in the "second seminar" entitled "Health Care in the American Grain" is a discussion of the need to identify a set of Foundational American Values against which to measure our health care system/systems and a trial balloon of four such basic american values, along with some relevant references.
4. the "third" through the "tenth seminars" cover the following - disease-specific disparities, diversity and socio-economic factors in disparities, challenges to health workforce development, health information technology, new and anticipated technological breakthroughs, multicultural-integrative-complementary care, health as a team game/new models, America and its interactions with the world.
TO BE FOUND UNDER "ARCHIVES"
1. Entry of 6/14/10 by Mary Woolley, "Health Equity - Getting Beyond Hope". The CEO of Reseaqrch!America speaks out about the relationship of Hope to our fundamental values and our unique american capacity to deliver innovations that work.
2. Entry of 6/16/10 by University of Michigan scholars, Carmen Green and Gilbert Omenn; an essy "Unequal Burdens and Unheard Voices: Minority Aging"
TO BE CONTINUED ON NEXT BLOG POST...