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 Compensation for Injured Research Subjects(New England Journal of Medicine, 2006) Steinbrook, RobertThe article discusses compensation options for research subjects who incur injury during medical trials. The author notes two views: those that view compensation to injured participants as an obligation and those that view compensation as not obligatory because volunteers were made aware of possible risks and consented to the study on their own. Also mentioned as topics of debate are the extent and duration of potential coverage of participants that may have been injured as well as determining if an injury is in fact a complication of the study or not.Item China's barefoot doctor: past, present, and future(The Lancet, 2008-10-20) Zhang, DaqingChina's long struggle with rural coverage for health care goes back to the early part of the 20th century. However, these early efforts were seen at that time as unsuccessful. 1 Although the Government tried to draft private practitioners into the rural medical service corps, 2 delivery of health care was still scarce after 1949. Health-care expenditure for 8·3 million urban citizens covered by the state was more than that for 500 million peasants in 1964. 3 After Mao Zedong criticised the urban bias of medical services and pointed out the stress placed on rural areas in 1965, 4 mobile teams of doctors from urban hospitals were sent to deliver health care and train indigenous paramedics.Item The Epidemic Intelligence Service—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Disease Detectives(Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006-04) Hamilton, Douglas H.The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a unique 2-year postgraduate program of service and on-the-job training for health professionals interested in epidemiology. Since 1951, approximately 2600 EIS officers—CDC’s “disease detectives”—have graduated from the program. In addition to the training gained through investigating disease outbreaks, natural and man-made disasters, and other public health emergencies, the program provides formal instruction to its trainees through courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health ethics and law, evaluation of surveillance systems, scientific writing, and prevention effectiveness. The 2-fold mission of EIS is training and service. One of the many ways that EIS delivers on its service mission is by forming the backbone of CDC’s ready-response capability. When CDC is called upon to furnish epidemiologic assistance to our public health partners both domestically and internationally, an EIS officer is often the first one dispatched to the site.Item Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness: Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement. Workshop Summary(2009) Chao, Samantha; Anderson, Karen M.; Hernandez, LylaItem Reducing disparities in diabetes among African-American and Latino residents of Detroit: the essential role of community planning focus groups.(2004) Kieffer, Edith C; Willis, Sharla K; Odoms-Young, Angela M; Guzman, J Ricardo; Allen, Alex J; Two Feathers, Jackie; Loveluck, JimenaItem Alcohol consumption and compliance among inner-city minority patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.(2000) Johnson, K H; Bazargan, M; Bing, E GItem Community Health Centers and racial/ethnic disparities in healthy life.(2001) Shi, L; Regan, J; Politzer, R M; Luo, JItem Cigarette smoking in Wisconsin: the influence of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomics.(2000) Malmstadt, J R; Nordstrom, D L; Carty, D C; Christiansen, A L; Chudy, N E; Rumm, P D; Remington, P LItem Minorities Face Inadequate MH Care, Unequal Access, Satcher Says(2000) Mulligan, KateItem Racial and ethnic disparities in perceptions of physician style and trust.(2000) Doescher, M P; Saver, B G; Franks, P; Fiscella, K