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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    African-American preference for same-race healthcare providers: the role of healthcare discrimination.
    (2005) Malat, Jennifer; van Ryn, Michelle
    The results suggest that while knowledge of unfair treatment historically and perceptions of current racial inequity do not affect preferences, personal experiences of unfair treatment may have a significant effect on African-American patients' preferences regarding health care. Findings suggest that rather than focusing on how historical mistreatment and current inequities in medical treatment affect individual patients, research should focus on individual experiences.
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    Race and Nicotine Replacement Treatment Outcomes Among Low-Income Smokers
    (2008) Fu, Steven S.; Burgess, Diana J.; Hatsukami, Dorothy K.; Noorbaloochi, Siamak; Clothier, Barbara A.; Nugent, Sean; van Ryn, Michelle
    Abstract available at publisher's web site.
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    Paved With Good Intentions: Do Public Health and Human Service Providers Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health?
    (2003) van Ryn, Michelle; Fu, Steven S.
    There is extensive evidence of racial/ethnic disparities in receipt of health care. The potential contribution of provider behavior to such disparities has remained largely unexplored. Do health and human service providers behave in ways that contribute to systematic inequities in care and outcomes? If so, why does this occur? The authors build on existing evidence to provide an integrated, coherent, and sound approach to research on providers’ contributions to racial/ethnic disparities. They review the evidence regarding provider contributions to disparities in outcomes and describe a causal model representing an integrated set of hypothesized mechanisms through which health care providers’ behaviors may contribute to these disparities.