Deaf Health – Hepatitis C

Health section giving out information this time about Hepatitis C. All in ASL to make sure you are up to date about this illness!

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Deaf Health – Patient Rights Statement

Frederick Memorial Healthcare System stands by our Patient Rights Statement. We offer this statement in writing to every patient, but understand some deaf patients may prefer to view it in American Sign Language (ASL) rather than read it.

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Deaf Health – Intro to VRI

There is no description but looks like a very interesting video. And I am not sure which area in the USA provides this service.

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Deaf Health – Understanding Asthma

This is one of many films produced by the Deaf Wellness Center (DWC) at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Deaf Health – Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community Mental Health Awareness

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This is signed and captioned video that puts emphasis on accessibility and availability of the important, but often unrecognized necessity for mental health services in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community.

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Deaf Health – Understanding Diabetes

Diabetes UK has worked with RNID to produce information in British Sign Language (BSL) for the people with diabetes in the Deaf community.

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Deaf Health – Deaf in Health Field

They are looking for deaf professionals to work in the deaf health field! That is wonderful and the “Need To Know Rochester” Originally aired Sept. 24, 2010.

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Deaf Health – John’s Story: Deaf, Gay, HIV+, Proud

John tells his story of being a deaf, gay man in South Africa, and how he found out he was HIV positive. He uses sign language to tell his story. John describes the difficulties of communicating with a doctor, and the discrimination he’s faced within the deaf community as an HIV positive gay man.

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Deaf Health – Flu Guidance for Deaf Adults

Films produced by the Deaf Wellness Center (DWC) at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The other film is “Flu Guidance for Deaf Parents.” Visit the DWC website at www.urmc.rochester.edu/dwc. Correspondence about these and other DWC films for deaf audiences can be directed to Robert_Pollard@urmc.rochester.edu.

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Deaf Health – Medical Careers for the Deaf

YNN reports on a new initiative involving Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) designed to encourage more deaf students to enter the health care field.

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