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Hello Friends:
The Korean American Health Coalition (KAHC) and the Korean American Graduate Medical Association (KAGMA) are presenting the 2nd Annual Korean American Health Conference: Building Community...Strengthening Health on July 15, 2017 (Saturday, 8:30 am - 5 pm, Breakfast & Lunch included) at the Intercontinental Hotel at the Wilshire Grand Center 900 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
Your pledges are tax deductible. The fiscal sponsor is KAGMA, which is a nonprofit 501c3. And go to bottom to see reward levels.
"Last year, tickets sold out, and we had over 200 attendees. And last year's speakers were rated as good or excellent by 97.2% of the attendees."
We are needing your support to help fund the conference. Your contribution will allow us to put down a deposit for the conference, and your engagement and support of our mission will help us engage other business, political, and health institutions to bring attention to the needs of our community and work towards measurable results reducing health disparities in Korean Americans.
Who Are We?
We're like you. We have friends and family in need of improving wellness and treating their health issues but somehow may not have had access to the optimal diagnosis, screening, or treatment, either from lack of access, education, awareness, or due to cultural and language barriers.
KAHC is a coalition of over 20 Korean American and mainstream organizations committed to making a measurable impact on health disparities in Korean Americans.
What's This Conference About?
We are putting on this conference because there is a lack of health education, awareness, resources, and research focused on the issues facing Korean Americans.
The purpose of the conference is to provide a platform to bring Korean American community members with health care providers to discuss health issues impacting us and discussing diagnostic and treatment resources available to our community. This conference is a chance to reduce the communication gap between health providers and health consumers by giving community members direct access to physicians and other health care providers.
What are the facts right now regarding the state of Korean American health?
Korean Americans have some of the highest uninsured and underinsured rates of any ethnic group and some of the lowest cancer screening rates of any ethnic group. Language and cultural barriers uniquely contribute to lack of health education, access, awareness, and treatment of disease. Korean Americans have health disparities in treatable and preventable diseases, such as hepatitis, gastric cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, and colon cancer.
What is the predictable future in this area if no action is taken?
Few other communities would step in to improve the health issues and problems in our community. There would be continued high uninsured and/or underinsured Korean Americans and low rates of cancer screening in the KA community. Language and cultural barriers would continue to be obstacles to Korean Americans receiving health education and treatment for preventable and treatable disease. Korean Americans would continue to have a lack of attention, resources, and policy changes that would perpetuate the health disparities listed above. Key questions regarding Korean American health will go unanswered, while needed policies and programs focused on Korean Americans required to improve the health of the community will not be prioritized.
What are the possibilities that can be created with this conference?
• We are the possibility of a unified voice advocating for Korean American health.
• We are the possibility of improved quality of life for the Korean American community through better health.
• We can be a coalition of organizations and individuals that would take actions to improve health education, awareness, access, and outcomes, creating policy changes and directing resources to focus on the Korean American community.
www.koreanamericanhealthconference.com (last year's conference)
www.kahealthcoalition.org
www.kagma.org
Thank You,
David S. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA
KAHC and Conference Co-Chair
See rewards below:
The Korean American Health Coalition (KAHC) and the Korean American Graduate Medical Association (KAGMA) are presenting the 2nd Annual Korean American Health Conference: Building Community...Strengthening Health on July 15, 2017 (Saturday, 8:30 am - 5 pm, Breakfast & Lunch included) at the Intercontinental Hotel at the Wilshire Grand Center 900 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
Your pledges are tax deductible. The fiscal sponsor is KAGMA, which is a nonprofit 501c3. And go to bottom to see reward levels.
"Last year, tickets sold out, and we had over 200 attendees. And last year's speakers were rated as good or excellent by 97.2% of the attendees."
We are needing your support to help fund the conference. Your contribution will allow us to put down a deposit for the conference, and your engagement and support of our mission will help us engage other business, political, and health institutions to bring attention to the needs of our community and work towards measurable results reducing health disparities in Korean Americans.
Who Are We?
We're like you. We have friends and family in need of improving wellness and treating their health issues but somehow may not have had access to the optimal diagnosis, screening, or treatment, either from lack of access, education, awareness, or due to cultural and language barriers.
KAHC is a coalition of over 20 Korean American and mainstream organizations committed to making a measurable impact on health disparities in Korean Americans.
What's This Conference About?
We are putting on this conference because there is a lack of health education, awareness, resources, and research focused on the issues facing Korean Americans.
The purpose of the conference is to provide a platform to bring Korean American community members with health care providers to discuss health issues impacting us and discussing diagnostic and treatment resources available to our community. This conference is a chance to reduce the communication gap between health providers and health consumers by giving community members direct access to physicians and other health care providers.
What are the facts right now regarding the state of Korean American health?
Korean Americans have some of the highest uninsured and underinsured rates of any ethnic group and some of the lowest cancer screening rates of any ethnic group. Language and cultural barriers uniquely contribute to lack of health education, access, awareness, and treatment of disease. Korean Americans have health disparities in treatable and preventable diseases, such as hepatitis, gastric cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, and colon cancer.
What is the predictable future in this area if no action is taken?
Few other communities would step in to improve the health issues and problems in our community. There would be continued high uninsured and/or underinsured Korean Americans and low rates of cancer screening in the KA community. Language and cultural barriers would continue to be obstacles to Korean Americans receiving health education and treatment for preventable and treatable disease. Korean Americans would continue to have a lack of attention, resources, and policy changes that would perpetuate the health disparities listed above. Key questions regarding Korean American health will go unanswered, while needed policies and programs focused on Korean Americans required to improve the health of the community will not be prioritized.
What are the possibilities that can be created with this conference?
• We are the possibility of a unified voice advocating for Korean American health.
• We are the possibility of improved quality of life for the Korean American community through better health.
• We can be a coalition of organizations and individuals that would take actions to improve health education, awareness, access, and outcomes, creating policy changes and directing resources to focus on the Korean American community.
www.koreanamericanhealthconference.com (last year's conference)
www.kahealthcoalition.org
www.kagma.org
Thank You,
David S. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA
KAHC and Conference Co-Chair
See rewards below: