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 No Place to Belong: Contextualizing Concepts of Mental Health Among Undocumented Immigrant Youth in the United States(2013) Gonzales, R. G.; Suarez-Orozco, C.; Dedios-Sanguineti, M. C.This article examines the consequences of undocumented immigration status for those who grow up in the United States. The aim is to examine the relationship between undocumented immigrant status and mental and emotional health. Our efforts focus on undocumented immigrants who arrive as children and spend most of their formative years in the United States. The experiences of these undocumented members of the 1.5 generation are quite different from those who migrate as adults. We are interested in better understanding the effects confusing and conflicting experiences of inclusion and exclusion have on their mental and emotional health as well as the protective factors that may shape resilience. While previous scholarship has drawn some important implications to experiences of stress among undocumented youth and young adults, to our knowledge, no work has been done to explicitly draw the link to mental and emotional health. The article concludes with some suggestions for future research on the topic.Item The Effects of Race, Ethnicity, and Mood/Anxiety Disorders on the Chronic Physical Health Conditions of Men From a National Sample(2013) Johnson-Lawrence, V.; Griffith, D. M.; Watkins, D. C.Racial/ethnic differences in health are evident among men. Previous work suggests associations between mental and physical health but few studies have examined how mood/anxiety disorders and chronic physical health conditions covary by age, race, and ethnicity among men. Using data from 1,277 African American, 629 Caribbean Black, and 371 non-Hispanic White men from the National Survey of American Life, we examined associations between race/ethnicity and experiencing one or more chronic physical health conditions in logistic regression models stratified by age and 12-month mood/anxiety disorder status. Among men <45 years without mood/anxiety disorders, Caribbean Blacks had lower odds of chronic physical health conditions than Whites. Among men aged 45+ years with mood/anxiety disorders, African Americans had greater odds of chronic physical health conditions than Whites. Future studies should explore the underlying causes of such variation and how studying mental and chronic physical health problems together may help identify mechanisms that underlie racial disparities in life expectancy among men.Item "Their Depression Is Something Different . . . It Would Have to Be": Findings From a Qualitative Study of Black Women's Perceptions of Depression in Black Men(2013) Watkins, D. C.; Abelson, J. M.; Jefferson, S. O.This study reports findings from the Black Women’s Perceptions of Black Men’s Depression (BWP) study, which included eight focus groups with Black women (N = 46) from southeastern Michigan. Four themes illustrated the impressions of Black women from different socioeconomic backgrounds: Black men’s depression is a cultured and gendered phenomenon, the role of Black women in Black men’s depression, intergenerational differences with how depression is handled by Black men, and the need (and ways) to reach Black men with depression resources. Results underscore not only the importance of understanding the kind of depression in Black men that meets criteria described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) but also the psychological distress that may coexist with (or be separate from) DSM depression. Implications for interventions that educate, diagnose, and treat depression in Black men are discussed.Item The intersection of school racial composition and student race/ethnicity on adolescent depressive and somatic symptoms(2011) Walsemann, Katrina M.; Bell, Bethany A.; Maitra, DebeshiItem Stress, coping, and depression: Testing a new hypothesis in a prospectively studied general population sample of U.S.-born Whites and Blacks(2011) Keyes, K.M.; Barnes, David M.; Bates, L.M.Item The Association of Incarceration with Community Health and Racial Health Disparities(2009) Kruger, Daniel J.; De Loney, E. HillAbstract available at publisher's website.Item Help Seeking and Help Receiving for Emotional Distress Among Latino Men and Women(2010) Ishikawa, R. Z.; Cardemil, E. V.; Falmagne, R. J.Abstract available at publisher's website.Item Responses to Discrimination and Psychiatric Disorders Among Black, Hispanic, Female, and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals(2010) McLaughlin, Katie A.; Hatzenbuehler, Mark L.; Keyes, Katherine M.Abstract available at publisher's website.Item Perceived discrimination, psychological distress and health(2010) Todorova, Irina L.G.; Falcón, Luis M.; Lincoln, Alisa K.; Price, Lori LynAbstract available at publisher's website.