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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    The Health of Urban USA
    (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), 2007) Lenihan, Patrick; Benbow, Nanette; Johnson, Victoria; Brown, Carol
    We are very pleased to release the fifth edition of the Big Cities Health Inventory(BCHI), a compendium of health status indicators produced in a comparative format for the 54 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. This report fills an information gap that, despite great advances in information technology over the past decade, still persists today. Data on the health of our communities are probably more widely available at this time than at any point in the past. The Internet has become a vast repository of statistics on a variety health conditions. But less progress has been made in turning these raw data into usable information, especially for the nation's largest urban areas which face higher rates of poor health status and racial/ethnic disparities in illness and access to health care services.
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    Big Cities Health Inventory: The Health of Urban America, 2007
    (2007) Lenihan, Patrick; Benbow, Nanette; Weaver, Kingsley; Johnson, Victoria; Brown, Carol; Benbow, N.
    The importance of having state, county, and local health-related data has been recognized in a number of studies. The availability of local level data, both general and related to specific issues, continues to improve in this technological age.10-13 Among these are several reports and data sources that have been produced to describe the relationship between levels of urbanization and health. The purpose of this document is to focus specifically on the health of people living in large cities in the United States. In so doing, the report attempts to increase knowledge of the issues large cities face and stimulate dialogue that will lead to a healthier city population. In addition to improving our understanding of the health in large cities, the data in this report will serve as a reference point to monitor cities’ progress in reaching the nation’s Year 2010 objectives.