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 Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department(2015) UNSPECIFIEDThe Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice opened its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (“FPD”) on September 4, 2014. This investigation was initiated under the pattern-or-practice provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 3789d (“Safe Streets Act”), and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d (“Title VI”). This investigation has revealed a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson Police Department that violates the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and federal statutory law. Over the course of the investigation, we interviewed City officials, including City Manager John Shaw, Mayor James Knowles, Chief of Police Thomas Jackson, Municipal Judge Ronald Brockmeyer, the Municipal Court Clerk, Ferguson’s Finance Director, half of FPD’s sworn officers, and others. We spent, collectively, approximately 100 person-days onsite in Ferguson. We participated in ride-alongs with on-duty officers, reviewed over 35,000 pages of police records as well as thousands of emails and other electronic materials provided by the police department. Enlisting the assistance of statistical experts, we analyzed FPD’s data on stops, searches, citations, and arrests, as well as data collected by the municipal court. We observed four separate sessions of Ferguson Municipal Court, interviewing dozens of people charged with local offenses, and we reviewed third-party studies regarding municipal court practices in Ferguson and St. Louis County more broadly. As in all of our investigations, we sought to engage the local community, conducting hundreds of in-person and telephone interviews of individuals who reside in Ferguson or who have had interactions with the police department. We contacted ten neighborhood associations and met with each group that responded to us, as well as several other community groups and advocacy organizations. Throughout the investigation, we relied on two police chiefs who accompanied us to Ferguson and who themselves interviewed City and police officials, spoke with community members, and reviewed FPD policies and incident reports.Item CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report — United States, 2013(Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2013) UNSPECIFIEDItem “ÉTICAMENTE IMPOSIBLE” Investigación sobre las STD en Guatemala desde 1946 hasta 1948(Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, 2011) UNSPECIFIEDItem Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health(National Academies Press, 2012) UNSPECIFIEDNo abstract available.Item Disparities in Children’s Health(2012) UNSPECIFIEDA child’s health is strongly affected by the family and community environment in which he or she lives, learns and plays, as well as by access to high-quality health care, high-quality early learning and educational opportunities, and nurturing relationships with parents and other adults. Reducing disparities in child health requires community-based strategies and health care policies that support children’s healthy development at home, at school and in the community. Health insurance and health care are vital to children’s health status as a means of preventing or mitigating health problems and educating families about health issues. Health disparities are associated with family income, educational status, race and ethnicity, and geography. Poor and low-income children have higher rates of mortality and disability than higher income children and are more likely to be in fair or poor health. Research shows that as neighborhood poverty levels increase, child well-being and opportunities for success decrease. One in ten Rhode Island children lives in a neighborhood of concentrated poverty (defined as census tracts with poverty rates of 30% or more). African American and Latino children are more likely than White children to live in these neighborhoods. Black and Latino children are more likely to be in poor health than their White counterparts. Children who are poor, of color or uninsured are more likely to lack access to appropriate health care. Rhode Island’s children are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity and income. In 2010 in Rhode Island, 72% of children under age 18 were White, 8% were Black or African-American, 3% were Asian, less than 1% were Native American, 9% were Some other race and 7% were Two or more races. Twenty-one percent of Rhode Island children were Hispanic.Item Health Disparities Profiles 2011 Edition(2011) UNSPECIFIEDThe 2011 Health Disparities Profiles examines key health indicators at the state level for different racial and ethnic populations in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Twenty-two health indicators are presented, which highlight some of the key areas related to health disparities among different populations. It can be used as a reference for policymakers and program managers to identify areas where major health disparities exist in each state.Item The Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions: The First Five Years(2010) UNSPECIFIEDU.S. Government leaders throughout the twentieth century have attempted to address the inefficiencies of the nation’s health care system, and yet, costs continue to increase as access to care declines. Ethnic and racial minorities in the U.S., a growing segment of the population, are the most affected by persistent and ever widening health and healthcare disparities. These striking disparities in the health and wellness of our own population are made even more dramatic when our population’s health is compared to other countries. A major contributor to our inability to address these health disparities within the United States is our critical…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 Medicaid: A Lifeline for Blacks and Latinos with Serious Health Care Needs(2011) UNSPECIFIEDReport, commissioned by the Families USA, the Joint Center Health Policy Institute and other allies, describes the likely impact on African Americans and Latinos of cuts to Medicaid, the program on which millions of low-income Americans rely. It contains state-specific data for blacks and Latinos who rely on Medicaid and suffer from chronic medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease and heart disease.Item Maryland Plan to Eliminate Minority Health Disparities Plan of Action 2010 – 2014(Maryland Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2010) UNSPECIFIEDThe Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is pleased to present the Maryland Plan to Eliminate Minority Health Disparities, Plan of Action 2010-2014. This document, published by the Maryland Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (MHHD), is the second statewide Plan devoted to minority health in Maryland. The Plan of Action provides specific action steps to be implemented within the next 5 years, in collaboration with potential stakeholders, in order to continue Maryland’s momentum in the elimination of health disparities.