title: Jazzin' Healthy: Interdisciplinary Health Outreach Events Focused on Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  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.
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA. disaacs@csu.edu.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Isaacs
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY, 13902-6000, USA.
authors.forename: Angela C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Riley
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Lalita
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Prasad-Reddy
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Castner
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fields
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Harper-Brown
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Sabah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hussein
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Charisse L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Traiana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mangum
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/Douglas Hall 3093, Chicago, IL, 60628, USA.
authors.forename: Sneha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Srivastava
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003376:Counseling; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses; D064686:Nutritionists; D000072087:Occupational Therapists; D000072162:Optometrists; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010595:Pharmacists; D010808:Physical Examination; D010820:Physicians; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D011634:Public Health; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D014611:Vaccination; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: African Americans; Cardiovascular diseases; Health promotion; Healthcare disparities; Interdisciplinary communication; Medically underserved areas