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 Improving the Health of Low-Income and Minority Communities(2011) UNSPECIFIEDWHY ARE HEALTH DISPARITIES A THREAT TO OUR NATION’S HEALTH? Lower-Income and Minority Communities Systematically Have Less Access to Health Care, Higher Exposure to Health Threats, and Worse Health Outcomes:Item Healthy Women, Healthy Babies(2008) UNSPECIFIEDTrust for America's Health (TFAH) released Healthy Women, Healthy Babies in conjunction with the release of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT DATABOOK 2008. The report explains why after 40 years of progress, infant mortality rates in the U.S. have stalled since 2000. TFAH finds that the deteriorating health of American women, due in part to wide-spread chronic disease epidemics like obesity and diabetes, is taking a toll on American infants, resulting in stagnated improvement when it comes to infant health. TFAH's report offers recommendations for Congress and the American health system to aggressively improve the health of new-born infants.Item Improving Data Collection to Reduce Health Disparities(2011) UNSPECIFIEDMany racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities, and other commonly underserved populations face unique health challenges, have reduced access to health care and insurance, and often pay the price with poorer health throughout their lives. These underserved populations are less likely to get the preventive care they need to stay healthy and are more likely to suffer from serious illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. When these populations do get sick, they are less likely to have access to quality health care. As a result, health disparities persist.Item America's Health Rankings: A Call to Action for Individuals & Their Communities 2008 Edition(2008) UNSPECIFIEDHealth is a result of our personal behaviors, our individual genetic predisposition to disease, the environment and the community in which we live, the clinical care we receive and the policies and practices of our health care and prevention systems. Each of us, individually, as a community, and as a society, strives to optimize these health determinants, so that all of us can have a long, diseasefree and robust life regardless of race, gender or socio-economic status. This report looks at the four groups of health determinants that can be affected:Item 2007 Health Disparities Report to the Michigan Legislature(2007) UNSPECIFIEDHealth disparities are differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, burden of disease and other adverse health conditions or outcomes that exist among specific population groups in the United States. In Michigan, as in the United States, racial and ethnic minority populations carry a disproportionately heavy burden due to health disparities. This burden is manifested in increased risk for disease, delayed diagnosis, inaccessible and inadequate care, poor health outcomes and untimely death, much of which are preventable.Item Oklahoma Task Force to Eliminate Health Disparities(2006) UNSPECIFIEDIn 2003 Senate Bill 680 created the Oklahoma Task Force to Eliminate Health Disparities. Initially, twelve members representing the Oklahoma Legislature and diverse members of Oklahoma’s population made up the Task Force. The Governor, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the State Commissioner of Health each made three appointments. In 2004 an amendment to Senate Bill 680 added three new members to represent mental health concerns. The Task Force was charged to assist the State Department of Health investigate issues related to health disparities and health access (e.g., availability of health care providers, cultural competency, and behaviors that lead to poor health) among multicultural, underserved and regional populations; develop short-term and long-term strategies to eliminate health disparities, focusing on cardiovascular disease, infant mortality, diabetes, cancer and other leading causes of death; publish a report on the findings and recommendations for implementing targeted programs to move Oklahoma closer to a state of health through the reduction and eventual elimination of health disparities.Item New York State Minority Health Surveillance Report(2007) UNSPECIFIEDNew York State’s population has become increasingly diverse due, in large part, to a growing foreign-born population. In order to improve the health of all New Yorkers and to address health disparities in the population, it is critical that there be a base of knowledge and understanding of the variations in health measures that cross racial, ethnic and income groups. This Minority Health Surveillance Report (MHSR), which presents data on a wide variety of health indicators in New York State, serves as an important resource for identifying and addressing health disparities.Item Insurers’ Response To Health Disparities(2005) UNSPECIFIEDThe Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 decreed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality develop two annual reports—the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) and the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR)—to track “prevailing disparities in health care delivery.” Soon thereafter, the Healthy People 2010 project articulated the goal of reducing health disparities and delineated a range of performance measures to gauge progress on that front. Such federal initiatives seemed to reflect a realization among policymakers that inequalities exist in access to and quality of care afforded tomany racial/ethnic minorities when compared with the majority population. Researchers and clinicians have consistently determined that these disparities contribute to pervasive gaps in health outcomes among minority populations.Item The National Negro Health Movement (1915-1951)(2005) UNSPECIFIEDPresentation on the history of the National Negro Health MovementItem Five-Year Strategic Plan for Reducing Health Disparities(2002) UNSPECIFIEDNCRR intends to mobilize its research resources and other infrastructure components to continue to facilitate initiatives of other NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) to study Health Disparities (HDs), with the ultimate goal of eliminating the disparities frequently observed among ethnic and minority populations. NCRR provides funds to support institutional and faculty development as well as research on diseases that disproportionately impact minority and other special populations.