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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    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.
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    Medical Education and Societal Needs: A Planning Report for Health Professions
    (National Academy Press, 1983) UNSPECIFIED
    Medical education in the United States today owes much of its structure to the implementation of many of the recommendations of the 1910 report by Abraham Flexner. He decried an abundance of non-rigorous proprietary schools and held up as a model the university-based curriculum of John Hopkins. Flexner’s urging for reform succeeded so well that medical education and medical practice henceforth became solidly grounded in the knowledge and methods of natural science.