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 Educational Attainment in the Context of Social Inequality: New Directions for Research on Education and Health(2013) Walsemann, K. M.; Gee, G. C.; Ro, A.A large literature documents a strong and consistent educational gradient in health: more-educated persons enjoy lower rates of morbidity and mortality. This literature has generally focused on the amount of schooling one completes but has yet to comprehensively examine other facets of education, such as educational quality or school segregation. More importantly, the literature has generally conceptualized education at the level of individual persons and has yet to fully study the structural dimensions of education and the production of educational inequities. The goal of this article is to identify several areas of educational inequity beyond personal educational attainment. These include (a) population differences in the strength of the educational gradient in health, (b) educational quality, (c) school segregation, and (d) the role of place of education among immigrants. We also discuss some emerging issues, such as student debt and pathways to education. Accordingly, there is much work to be done to further our knowledge regarding the relationship between education and health.Item Nutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum: The Role of National Standards - Workshop Summary(The National Academies Press, 2013) Olson, Steve; Moats, SheilaItem Obama bioethics panel: Teach history of US-led STD experiments on Guatemalans(2012) Viebeck, EliseItem Teaching Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities(2006) Selig, S.Abstract available at publisher's website.Item Cultural competency in health care: Web sites for health care providers and educators(2011) Gilbert, Karen; Bhandari, Michelyn W.As the United States becomes more culturally diverse, inequities in health care have been identified. It is a sad truth that, for Americans, the quality of health care received varies greatly depending on race, ethnicity, ability to speak English, socioeconomic group, or place of residence (especially if it is rural). One organization bridging this gap is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which for the past eight years has published the National Healthcare Disparities Report detailing trends in health care equity and identifying inequalities. In it, for example, readers can find that Blacks, American Indians, and Alaska Natives…Item Open Access: Greater Impact for Minority Health & Health Equity Research(2011) Barnett, John H.; Deliyannides, Timothy S.This PowerPoint presentation provides history and information about Open Access and its impact on research and publishing. The presentation focuses on the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive's role in Open Access dissemination of research. Tools to facilitate Open Access are also discussed.Item GUEST EDITORIAL: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EQUITY: A CALL TO ACTION FOR SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION(2011) Williams, James Herbert; Marsiglia, Flavio F.No abstract available.Item Spreading the Gospel of Health: Tuskegee Institute and National Negro Health Week(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995) Smith, SusanIn the early twentieth century the health reform efforts of black club women became part of a national black health movement. In 1915 Booker T. Wash- ington, the most powerful black leader of his time, launched a health educa- tion campaign known as National Negro Health Week from Tuskegee In- stitute in Alabama. Washington, as founder and head of the school, had long emphasized sanitation and hygiene in his educational work. However, that year he set in motion a health campaign that would grow into a nation- wide black health movement over the next thirty-five years. For black lead- ers and community organizers, National Negro Health Week campaigns provided a way to advance the race through the promotion of black health education and cooperation across racial lines.Item Minorities in Higher Education Twenty-SECOND Annual Status Report : 2007 supplement(2007) Cook, Bryan J.; Córdova, Diana I.Since 1984, the American Council on Education (ACE) has published its annual Minorities in Higher Education status report. After much reflection and consultation with our member institutions, we have decided to publish a full status report every other year, with a special supplement in the intervening years to update the most frequently used tables from the full report. This decision was made for strategic and practical reasons, and does not reflect any change in ACE’s historic commitment to pursuing diversity and inclusiveness in American higher education. The data on enrollment, degrees conferred, faculty, and administrators in higher education vary little in any single-year span, so the annual changes we report are often small. Producing the full status report is a large and complex undertaking that precludes staff from pursuing other programs and research on access, equity, diversity, and success. By altering the publication schedule for the Minorities in Higher Education status reports, ACE will be able to bring its constituents a larger and more diverse range of research and programmatic activities that address this vitally important agenda. This special supplement to last year’s 22nd edition presents the latest data on high school completion and college participation rates, educational attainment rates, and degrees conferred. In each case, information is included for the racial and ethnic groups for whom data is available for the years reported.