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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    Neighborhood socioeconomic status and fruit and vegetable intake among whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans in the United States.
    (2008) Dubowitz, Tamara; Heron, Melonie; Bird, Chloe E; Lurie, Nicole; Finch, Brian K; Basurto-Dávila, Ricardo; Hale, Lauren; Escarce, José J
    The positive association of neighborhood SES with fruit and vegetable intake is one important pathway through which the social environment of neighborhoods affects population health and nutrition for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States.
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    Does utilization of screening mammography explain racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer?
    (2006) Smith-Bindman, Rebecca; Miglioretti, Diana L; Lurie, Nicole; Abraham, Linn; Barbash, Rachel Ballard; Strzelczyk, Jodi; Dignan, Mark; Barlow, William E; Beasley, Cherry M; Kerlikowske, Karla
    African-American women are less likely to receive adequate mammographic screening than white women, which may explain the higher prevalence of advanced breast tumors among African-American women. Tumor characteristics may also contribute to differences in cancer outcomes because African-American women have higher-grade tumors than white women regardless of screening. These results suggest that adherence to recommended mammography screening intervals may reduce breast cancer mortality rates.
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    Challenges To Using A Business Case For Addressing Health Disparities
    (2008) Lurie, Nicole; Somers, Stephen A.; Fremont, Allen; Angeles, January; Murphy, Erin K.; Hamblin, Allison
    The authors consider the challenges to quantifying both the business case and the social case for addressing disparities, which is central to achieving equity in the U.S. health care system. They describe the practical and methodological challenges faced by health plans exploring the business and social cases for undertaking disparity-reducing interventions. Despite these challenges, sound business and quality improvement principles can guide health care organizations seeking to reduce disparities. Place-based interventions may help focus resources and engage health care and community partners who can share in the costs of—and gains from—such efforts.
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    Disparities And Quality Improvement: Federal Policy Levers
    (2005) Lurie, Nicole; Jung, Minna; Lavizzo-Mourey, Risa
    Using a quality improvement framework to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care highlights multiple opportunities for federal and state governments to exert policy leverage, particularly through their roles as purchasers and regulators. Under such a framework, federal and state governments can expand their roles in collecting race/ethnicity data; define universal and meaningful race/ethnicity categories; more broadly disseminate standards for cultural competence; and demand the reduction of disparities through leveraging their status as collectively the largest U.S. health care payer.