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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    PRESCRIPTION FOR PENNSYLVANIA Right State Right Plan Right Now: STRATEGIC PLAN
    (2008) UNSPECIFIED
    The present system of providing health care was designed to treat acute illness, not control chronic diseases. In the face of rising levels of chronic disease and spiraling health care costs, governments, businesses, insurance companies and Pennsylvania families have, out of necessity, chosen to limit health care services, benefits and visits as ways of fighting expenses. Evidence is mounting around the country that exactly the opposite approach to chronic disease is more successful. Early, consistent and persistent health care intervention for those with chronic disease will likely be more cost-effective and will dramatically improve the quality of life for anyone with chronic disease. In May 2007 the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Management, Reimbursement and Cost Reduction Commission was created and its first requirement was to develop a strategic plan for a Chronic Care Model to improve the quality of care while reducing avoidable illnesses and their attendant costs. This report is part of that requirement.
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    Origin of the AIDS Virus: Briefing for the Office of the Honorable James A. Traficant, Jr., House of Representatives
    (2002) UNSPECIFIED
    Background An individual has alleged that the visna virus, which caused illness and death in Icelandic sheep, was used by the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Special Virus Cancer Program (SVCP) to develop HIV-1, the virus that has caused the global AIDS pandemic. • This individual cited a SVCP research program flowchart as evidence that HIV-1 was developed intentionally in its laboratories. Objectives • Identify overall stated purposes and outcomes of SVCP. • Describe scientific assessments of the origins of the AIDS virus and any possible evidence regarding the origin of the AIDS virus at SVCP. • Describe outcome of recent litigation involving the individual’s allegations of federal government involvement in the origins of the AIDS virus.
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    America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well Being 2007
    (US Government Printing Office, 2007) UNSPECIFIED
    The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics’ primary mission is to enhance and improve consistency in data collection and reporting on children and families. After a decade of publishing its report, the Forum presents this newly restructured 10th anniversary edition of America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007 which provides the Nation with a summary of national indicators of child well-being and monitors changes in these indicators. In addition to providing data in an easy-to-use, non-technical format, the purpose of the report is to stimulate discussions among policymakers and the public, exchanges between data providers and policy communities, and improvements in Federal data on children and families.