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 Weight-Related Perceptions and Experiences of Young Adult Women in Southwest Georgia(SAGE Journals, 2017-01-29) Woodruff, Rebecca; Raskind, Ilana; Ballard, Denise; Battle, Glenda; Haardorfer, RegineYoung adulthood is a period of pronounced weight gain, though few weight management interventions exist for this population. This qualitative study explored how young adult women feel about their weight, what kinds of weight-related advice they have received, and concerns about future weight gain to inform the adaptation of a weight gain prevention intervention. Forty women completed semistructured, in-depth interviews, which were digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants were women aged 20 to 29 years, primarily overweight (12.5%) or obese (55.0%), and African American (65.0%). Participants expressed dissatisfaction with their current weight and reported receiving advice to lose weight from multiple sources. Direct, health-focused advice from health care professionals tended to be received more positively than indirect, appearance-focused advice from family members and romantic partners. Participants expressed concern about future weight gain, either as a result of a family history of obesity or chronic disease, pregnancy, and child-rearing, or unhealthy lifestyle patterns. Future weight gain was anticipated to impact chronic disease risk, changes in physical appearance, and interference with daily activities. Results suggest that young adult women may be receptive to participating in weight management interventions and that health care systems may be strategic implementation partners.Item State-Level Variations in Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy(2011) Bharmal, Nazleen; Tseng, Chi-Hong; Kaplan, Robert; Wong, Mitchell D.Abstract available at publisher's website.Item Time to Take Stock: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Analgesic Treatment Disparities for Pain in the United States(2012) Meghani, Salimah H.; Byun, Eeeseung; Gallagher, Rollin M.Abstract available at publisher's website.Item Thirty-Day Readmission Rates for Medicare Beneficiaries by Race and Site of Care(2011) Joynt, K. E.; Orav, E. J.; Jha, A. K.Abstract available at publisher's website.Item Persistent Socioeconomic Disparities in Infant, Neonatal, and Postneonatal Mortality Rates in the United States, 1969-2001(2007) Singh, G. K.; Kogan, M. D.Abstract available at publisher's website.Item Advancing a National Agenda to Eliminate Disparities in Pain Care: Directions for Health Policy, Education, Practice, and Research(2011) Meghani, Salimah H.; Polomano, Rosemary C.; Tait, Raymond C.; Vallerand, April H.; Anderson, Karen O.; Gallagher, Rollin M.Abstract available at publisher's web site.Item From “Lists of Traits” to “Open-Mindedness”: Emerging Issues in Cultural Competence Education(2011) Jenks, Angela C.Abstract available at publisher's web site.Item Unintended pregnancy in the United States: incidence and disparities, 2006(2011) Finer, Lawrence B.; Zolna, Mia R.Abstract available at publisher's web site.Item Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: A review of food deserts literature(2010) Walker, Renee E.; Keane, Christopher R.; Burke, Jessica G.Increasingly, studies are focusing on the role the local food environment plays in residents' ability to purchase affordable, healthy and nutritious foods. In a food desert, an area devoid of a supermarket, access to healthy food is limited. We conducted a systematic review of studies that focused on food access and food desert research in the United States. The 31 studies identified utilized 9 measures to assess food access. Results from these studies can be summarized primarily into four major statements. Findings from other countries offer insight into ways, in which future research, policy development and program implementation in the U.S. may continue to be explored.Item Socioeconomic status and cancers of the female breast and reproductive organs: a comparison across racial/ethnic populations in Los Angeles County, California (United States)(1998) Liu, Lihua; Deapen, Dennis; Bernstein, LeslieOBJECTIVES: Despite the fact that socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to have important implications in health related issues, population-based cancer registries in the United States do not routinely collect SES information. This study presents a model to estimate the SES of cancer patients in the registry database. METHODS: At the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP), we developed a model to estimate each cancer patient's SES from aggregate measurements of the census tract of residence (n = 1,640) at time of diagnosis. We then applied the SES estimates to observe the relationship between SES and risk of cancers of the female breast and reproductive organs including cancers of the ovary, cervix uteri, and corpus uteri. The analyses were performed on the cumulative records (n = 127,819) of cancer patients diagnosed between 1972 and 1992 in Los Angeles County, California, for the mutually exclusive racial/ethnic groups of non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanic Whites, Blacks, Asians, and persons of other ethnic groups. RESULTS: We found SES is positively associated with female breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and cancer of the corpus uteri, but inversely associated with cervical cancer. These SES trends were quite consistent across age groups among non-Hispanic White women. Variations by race/ethnicity in the SES patterns were also found, with Asians exhibiting little association. CONCLUSIONS: Our model of measuring SES is sufficiently sensitive to capture the trends. Adopting the aggregate approach to measure SES in population-based registry data appears to be useful.