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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Item Black Men on Campus: Their Struggles, Successes and Voices(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014) UNSPECIFIEDItem Charting the Course(National Institute of Health - Office of Disease Prevention, 2014) UNSPECIFIEDItem Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2012(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013) UNSPECIFIEDItem MedStar Community Health Assessment 2012 - FULL Report(2012) UNSPECIFIEDItem Developing a Model for Measuring the Efficiency of the Health System in Canada(2012) UNSPECIFIEDHealth system policy- and decision-makers have a responsibility to ensure that scarce health system resources are used wisely to provide the best possible health services to the public while containing current and future costs. Measuring variations in health system efficiency and learning from them could be a helpful approach for policy- and decision-makers in this regard as it could inform policies and interventions maximizing health outcomes from scarce public resources. The goal of this project is to develop an approach for measuring the technical efficiency of the health system in a manner that is relevant to federal, provincial, territorial and regional policy- and decision-makers. Consultations with health system stakeholders at federal, provincial and territorial levels were the most significant contributions in defining this approach. A review of health system data available in Canada at the provincial, territorial and regional levels helped assess the feasibility of the health system efficiency measurement model proposed. The report provides an overview of the methods used to develop the approach, describes the main decision points and concludes with a presentation of an approach to health system efficiency measurement at the provincial and regional levels. The next steps in the project are as follows: test the model, using available data to produce preliminary results of the health system efficiency measure; engage with policy-makers and health system managers at the regional level to explore possible factors leading to inefficiencies; and identify successful policies that can serve as a learning opportunity for Canadian jurisdictions.Item Virginia Health Equity Report 2012(2012) UNSPECIFIEDThe 2012 Virginia Health Equity Report draws attention to health inequities among Virginians of varying socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and urban/rural backgrounds. It recommends various inter-sectoral strategies and collaboration, for promoting health equity in Virginia. It provides a foundation on which partners and stakeholders can develop new plans/strategies and also receive/provide education on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), with the goal of shaping policy and decision-making that promotes health equity in Virginia.Item Place Matters for Health in the San Joaquin Valley: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All(2012) UNSPECIFIEDNo abstract available.Item Health Care's Blind Side: The Overlooked Connection between Social Needs and Good Health(2011) UNSPECIFIEDA national survey reveals that physicians believe unmet social needs are directly leading to worse health for Americans — and that patients’ social needs are as important to address as their medical conditions. Medical care alone cannot help people achieve and maintain good health if they do not have enough to eat, live in a dilapidated apartment without heat or are unemployed. Physicians report that their patients frequently express health concerns caused by unmet social needs beyond their control. This is health care’s blind side: Within the current health care system, physicians do not have the time or sufficient staff support…Item Monitoring Social Well-being to Support Policies on the Social Determinants of Health: the case of New Zealand's "Social Reports/Te Purongo Oranga Tangata"(WHO Document Production Services, 2010) UNSPECIFIEDInvestigating the case of New Zealand’s “Social Reports/ te pūrongo oranga tangata”, the core aim of this discussion paper is to contribute to answering the research question of how monitoring social well-being supports a policy agenda aimed at addressing the social determinants of health to improve health equity. Hence, this study contributes to the WHO goal for improving the dissemination of knowledge to support action on the broader determinants of population health and health equity (which we term “the social determinants of health”) - both within and outside the health and government sectors. It builds on the work of the WHO Secretariat in supporting the global Commission on Social Determinants of Health and is a contribution by New Zealand, as a country partner, to the body of knowledge on institutions and mechanisms for supporting implementation of the social determinants of health agenda in countries.Item Action on the Social Determinants of Health: learning from previous experiences(WHO Document Production Services, 2010) UNSPECIFIEDToday an unprecedented opportunity exists to improve health in some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities by tackling the root causes of disease and health inequalities. The most powerful of these causes are the social conditions in which people live and work, referred to as the social determinants of health (SDH). The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shape the current global development agenda. The MDGs recognize the interdependence of health and social conditions and present an opportunity to promote health policies that tackle the social roots of unfair and avoidable human suffering. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) is poised for leadership in this process. To reach its objectives, however, the CSDH must learn from the history of previous attempts to spur action on SDH. This paper pursues three questions: (1) Why didn’t previous efforts to promote health policies on social determinants succeed? (2) Why do we think the CSDH can do better? (3) What can the Commission learn from previous experiences – negative and positive – that can increase its chances for success?