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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    Does Race Matter? Access and Service use for Children by Race during 2002
    (Allegheny HelathChoices, Inc., 2006) UNSPECIFIED
    Executive Summary The Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health and the supplemental report on Race, Culture and Ethnicity summarized national research on mental health and the treatment of mental disorders. These reports concluded that minorities were much less likely than Caucasians to access behavioral health care and receive high quality treatment, even though minorities and Caucasians have similar rates of mental disorders. These national reports provide the context for Allegheny HealthChoices, Inc.’s (AHCI) analysis of racial disparities in behavioral health services. In 2003, AHCI reported that African-American children and youth enrolled in HealthChoices during 2002 accessed behavioral health services at lower rates than Caucasians. AHCI developed this current report to further explore access and service use patterns by race for children and youth.
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    The National Negro Health Movement (1915-1951)
    (2005) UNSPECIFIED
    Presentation on the history of the National Negro Health Movement
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    Strategic Plan on Minority Health Disparities
    (2003) UNSPECIFIED
    Healthy People 2010 has two major goals: to increase the quality and years of life and to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health status based on the premise that “the health of the individual is inseparable from the health of the larger community” (Dr. David Satcher, Surgeon General, Partnerships for Health in the New Millenium conference, January 2000). Although our information on the health status of African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian-Americans, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders is not as complete as the data we have on the white, non-Hispanic population, it is evident that these groups experience much higher risks and poorer health status than the general population. It also appears that the disparities are growing both with regard to premature death and to general well-being and quality of life. The comparisons to the white population presented on the following page provide data on a few of these disparities.