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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    A Gender-Centered Ecological Framework Targeting Black Men Living With Diabetes: Integrating a "Masculinity" Perspective in Diabetes Management and Education Research
    (2010) Jack, L.; Toston, T.; Jack, N. H.; Sims, M.
    Abstract available at publisher's website.
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    Ethnicity/Race, Paranoia, and Hospitalization for Mental Health Problems Among Men
    (2004) Whaley, Arthur L.
    Objectives. I tested the hypothesis that Black men with high levels of distrust (i.e., mild paranoia) are at greater risk of hospitalization for mental health problems than their White counterparts. Methods. Secondary analysis was conducted of data from a subsample of 180 men in an epidemiological study. Mental health hospitalization was the outcome and ethnicity/ race, mild paranoia, and their interaction were main predictors in a logistic regression analysis. The ethnicity/race by mild paranoia interaction tested the study hypothesis. Results. The ethnicity/race by mild paranoia interaction was statistically significant. Contrary to the hypothesis, Black men with mild paranoia were less likely to be hospitalized. Conclusions. Black men’s lack of trust regarding the mental health system may cause them not to seek services. Factors critical to increasing their trust are acknowledgment of racial biases in the mental health system and sincere efforts to eliminate racial disparities in mental health treatment.
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    How a City Aims To Give Minorities Better Health Care: Pittsburgh Hopes To Satisfy 2010 Deadline By Using Voices With Street Cred'
    (2002) Martinez, Barbara
    Pittsburgh - The Rev. John Welch paused, dabbing at sweat on his receding hairline. Dapper in a double-breasted tan suit, he stood silent for a moment in the pulpit of the Bidwell United Presbyterian Church here, and then resumed speaking on a new topic. "God wants us to take preventive steps for our health," he exhorted. "Only when we are healthy can we help someone else." Raising his left arem heavenward, the minister said, "Lord, we have beennegligent of what you have entrusted us with." Then he told his followers to get their blood pressure checked right after the service, downstairs in the recreation hall, where nurses were waiting. It wasn't Mr. Welch's idea to lace his sermon with health tips. The move is part of a broad experiment led by the University of Pittsburgh that aims to erase the disparities in health care between the city's whites and blacks by the year 2010.
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    Black AIDS Campaign Launched in Bay Area
    (2003) AIDS Patient, Care and STDs
    “Are you Tippin?” That is the question being asked of black men in the San Francisco area in a new ad campaign aimed at men who do not self-identify as gay or bisexual, yet who have sex with other men. “Tippin” refers to a man who is living a heterosexual lifestyle, engages in sex with other men, and who does not identify as being gay or even bisexual.