Minority Health and Health Equity Archive

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Welcome to the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.

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    Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for Health Inequities
    (2010) Smedley, Brian; Andrulis, Dennis P.; James, Cara V.; Pañares, Rea
    To assess implications , opportunities, and challenges of health care reform for improving the health and health care of racially and ethnically diverse populations.
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    Health Care Proposals of the 2008 Democratic and Republican Presidential Nominees: Implications for Improving Acc ess, Affordability and Quality for America’s Minorities
    (Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 2008) Andrulis, Dennis P.; Smith, David B.; Siddiqui, Nadia J.; Duchon, Lisa
    In this election year, affordable health care is among the top issues for voters. Recognizing the need for action, the Republican and Democratic nominees have made health care reform a centerpiece of their respective presidential platforms. Each believes his approach will work best to expand health insurance coverage, reduce costs and improve quality for the world’s most costly health care system. Of greatest concern are the 47 million Americans without health insurance—half of whom are minorities. As the U.S. grows more racially and ethnically diverse, so, too, does the significance of disparities in chronic disease rates, shorter life spans and access to affordable, high quality health care. High uninsured rates and racial/ethnic disparities are the primary reasons why the United States lags behind the world’s most developed countries on most indicators of health status.