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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    The public's health, its national identity, and the continuing dilemma of minority status.
    (1999) Murray-García, J
    Racial and ethnic disparities in health status are persistent phenomena well described in the arena of public health. Such disparities are perhaps best understood in their full social, political, and historical context. While recognizing the rich literature on social determinants of health, this paper provides a specific discussion of the status of "the minority" in the United States. The dynamic nature of the American identity is first presented, along with implications for differential health status. Next discussed are emerging paradigms in research and intervention that incorporate the dynamic nature of the American identity as both an explanation and an opportunity for remedy of health status disparities. Finally, a critical leadership role for the public health profession is proposed as urgently needed and as yet incompletely embraced.
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    Data needed for improving the health of minorities
    (1993) Feinleib, Manning
    Abstract available at publisher's web site.
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    Bad blood: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment
    (The Free Press, 1981) Jones, James Howard
    An account of the experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service describes how medical treatment was withheld from Black sharecroppers infected with syphilis
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    The continuing legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: considerations for clinical investigation.
    (1999) Corbie-Smith, G
    The Tuskegee Study, an observational study of over 400 sharecroppers with untreated syphilis, was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service to document the course of the disease in blacks, and racial differences in the clinical manifestations of syphilis. The men were not told they had syphilis, not given counseling on avoiding spread of the disease, and not given treatment throughout the course of the study. The study became the longest (1932-1972) nontherapeutic experiment on humans in the history of medicine, and has come to represent not only the exploitation of blacks in medical history, but the potential for exploitation of any population that may be vulnerable because of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age or social class. It is important for physicians who will be caring for an increasingly diverse nation to understand the lasting implications of this study for their patients, but the effects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study are demonstrated most strikingly by unsuccessful attempts at improving representation of minority patients in clinical trials.
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    NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK TO BE OBSERVED APRIL I TO 8, 1928
    (1928) Public Health Reportsl, Staff
    The week of April 1 to April 8, 1928, has been set aside for the fourteenth observance of National Negro Health Week. State and municipal health departments, voluntary health organizations, and numerous other official and unofficial agencies interested in race welfare and advancement are cooperating with the United States Public Health Service in a determined effort to improve health and living conditions.
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    “Syphilis: National Negro Health Week”
    (1934) UNSPECIFIED
    “Syphilis: National Negro Health Week”, April 1, 1934. Two leaf fold-over. Fort Worth. Ransom Ransom, R. A., Chairman of Committee on Social Diseases & Chief Surgeon of Fort Worth Negro Hospital. Printed by Bragg Printing Co. This was the 20th meeting of the organization which was started by Booker T. Washington, as noted in the text.
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    National Meetings: Preliminary Conference Regarding National Negro Health Week 1930
    (1930) Alexander, W.G.; Miller, Kelly, Jr.
    The annual conference of representatives from the several health and social agencies co-operatting in the National Negro Health Week movement called by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service at the request of Dr. R. R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute, was convened in Washington, D.C., October 19, 1929, to consider ways and means for the sixteenth annual observance of the National Negro Health Week, March 30 to April 6, 1930.
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    The March of Events
    (1947) Reynolds, Louis B.
    Because most Negro citizens — North and South — live in crowded ghettoes composed of rundown tenement structures with poor sanitary facilities, the disease rate among Negroes is high. 'The number of preventable deaths is disturbing. Thus late this month the nation will observe National Negro Health Week, a week dedicated to the health of the largest minority group within the American commonwealth. This 33rd annual Negro Health Week will be observed from March 30 to April 6. A nation-wide program, it is sponsored by the U. S. Public Health Service, in cooperation with state, county, and city health departments, and various voluntary health and civic organizations.
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    National Health Negro Week—A Radio Broadcast
    (1944) Turner, John P.
    Q.-Dr. Turner. How did National Negro Health Week begin? A.-National Negro Health Week was instituted thirty years ago by the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, whose philosophy of head, heart, hand and health brought into existence a movement that has extended into every section of the United States. In Philadelphia this year, we are most fortunate in that our Board of Public Health is sponsoring Health Week, with twenty-three cooperating agencies, among them Hospitals, Nursing Societies, Churches, Christian Associations, Parent-Teachers Associations, Medical Societies, Red Cross, Social Agencies and Educational As. sociations.
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    National Negro Health Week
    (1922) Greene, D.
    This year's Negro Health Week, the eighth held, was conducted by Dr. R. R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute, April 2-8, under the auspices of the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference and the National Negro Business League, and in co6peration with the U. S. Public Health Service, national and state tuberculosis societies, the Red Cross, American Social Hygiene Association, and many other organizations. The purpose was to reduce morbidity and mortality among Negroes by educational methods, with particular emphasis on tuberculosis, infant mortality and venereal diseases.