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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    The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan
    (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008) Middlebrooks, Jennifer S.; Audage, Natalie C.
    Stress is an inevitable part of life. Human beings experience stress early, even before they are born. A certain amount of stress is normal and neces-sary for survival. Stress helps children develop the skills they need to cope with and adapt to new and potentially threatening situations throughout life. Support from parents and/or other concerned caregivers is necessary for children to learn how to respond to stress in a physically and emotion-ally healthy manner.The beneficial aspects of stress diminish when it is severe enough to over-whelm a child’s ability to cope effectively. Intensive and prolonged stress can lead to a variety of short- and long-term negative health effects. It can disrupt early brain development and compromise functioning of the nervous and immune systems. In addition, childhood stress can lead to health problems later in life including alcoholism, depression, eating disorders, heart disease, cancer, and other chronic diseases.The purpose of this publication is to summarize the research on childhood stress and its implications for adult health and well-being.
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    Adverse Childhood Exposures and Alcohol Dependence Among Seven Native American Tribes
    (2003) Koss, Mary P; Yuan, Nicole P; Dightman, Douglas; Prince, Ronald J; Polacca, Mona; Sanderson, Byron; Goldman, David
    Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are leading causes of death among Native Americans. Little is known about the impact of negative childhood exposures, including parental alcoholism, childhood maltreatment, and out-of-home placement, on risk of lifetime DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition) diagnosis of alcohol dependence in this population.
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    NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Strategic Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities
    (2002) National Institute on, Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    NIAAA-supported research reveals that about one-third of Americans do not drink at all and the majority of those who do drink, do so without adverse consequences. But pressing questions still persist. Why do some people exhibit a pathological appetite for alcohol despite serious physical and social problems? Why are some individuals more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol?