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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    Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care among U.S. Adolescents
    (2012) Lau, May; Lin, Hua; Flores, Glenn
    Abstract available at publisher's website.
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    Race and nutrition: an investigation of Black-White differences in health-related nutritional behaviours
    (2007) Bahr, Peter Riley
    Abstract available at publisher's website.
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    Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions
    (2010) Williams, D. R.; Sternthal, M.
    Abstract available at publisher's web site.
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    Applying Transdisciplinary Research Strategies to Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities
    (2006) Abrams, D. B.
    Abstract available at publisher's web site.
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    Ethnic and Racial Health Disparities Research: Issues and Problems
    (2006) Sue, S.; Dhindsa, M. K.
    Abstract available at publisher's web site.
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    A reconceptualization of the role of biology in contributing to race/ethnic disparities in health outcomes
    (2001) Frank, Reanne
    An increasing amount of attention is being given to the inappropriate use of contributionsfrom the biological sciences in research on race/ethnic disparities in health. This discussionwill take a first step towards productive interdisciplinary collaboration with the biologicalsciences by recognizing the methodological and ethical problems underlying current researchon race/ethnic disparities. An alternative model is then presented that specifies the role ofbiology in contributing to race/ethnic disparities in health and mortality without reinforcinga biological conceptualization of race.
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    Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care
    (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2007) James, Cara; Thomas, Megan; Lillie-Blanton, Marsha; Garfield, Rachel
    This update of Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity, and Medical Care, like its predecessors, is intended to serve as a quick reference source on the health, health insurance coverage, access and quality of health care of racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The document highlights some of the best available data and research in these areas. Since the first edition of Key Facts in 1999, the issue of racial/ethnic disparities in health care has received a significant level of attention. The Institute of Medicine released Unequal Treatment in 2002 summarizing the research to date on racial and ethnic disparities in health care and offering guidance as to what questions remained unanswered and what information was needed to answer those questions. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the first National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) in 2003. The report, which is issued annually by AHRQ, provides a comprehensive review of disparities in health care among racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in the United States.
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    Person and Place: The Compounding Effects of Race/Ethnicity and Rurality on Health
    (2004) Probst, Janice C.; Moore, Charity G.; Glover, Saundra H.; Samuels, Michael E
    Rural racial/ethnic minorities constitute a forgotten population. The limited research addressing rural Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/ Alaska Native populations suggests that disparities in health and in health care access found among rural racial/ ethnic minority populations are generally more severe than those among urban racial/ethnic minorities. We suggest that disparities must be understood as both collective and contextual phenomena. Rural racial/ ethnic minority disparities in part stem from the aggregation of disadvantaged individuals in rural areas. Disparities also emerge from a context of limited educational and economic opportunity. Linking public health planning to the education and economic development sectors will reduce racial/ ethnic minority disparities while increasing overall wellbeing in rural communities.
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    Big Cities Health Inventory: The Health of Urban America, 2007
    (2007) Lenihan, Patrick; Benbow, Nanette; Weaver, Kingsley; Johnson, Victoria; Brown, Carol; Benbow, N.
    The importance of having state, county, and local health-related data has been recognized in a number of studies. The availability of local level data, both general and related to specific issues, continues to improve in this technological age.10-13 Among these are several reports and data sources that have been produced to describe the relationship between levels of urbanization and health. The purpose of this document is to focus specifically on the health of people living in large cities in the United States. In so doing, the report attempts to increase knowledge of the issues large cities face and stimulate dialogue that will lead to a healthier city population. In addition to improving our understanding of the health in large cities, the data in this report will serve as a reference point to monitor cities’ progress in reaching the nation’s Year 2010 objectives.
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    Angels in the details: Comment on “The relationship between destination proximity, destination mix and physical activity behaviors”
    (2008) Sallis, James F.
    The connection between the built environment and physical activity is well accepted. Systematic reviews by the Transportation Research Board and Institute ofMedicine (2005) and CDC's Task Force on Community Preventive Services (Heath et al., 2006) have established this general finding. However, designers, planners, builders, and government officials need specific guidelines if they are to use research findings to change their practices. An important next step in research is to identify the specific modifiable aspects of the built environment that are most strongly related to physical activity. It is often said the devils are in the details, but in this casewe are likely to find angelic details that will help us improve the health of the population. This paper by McCormack et al. (2008) provides data that people who design and build communities may be able to put into practice. This paper advances the field in at least three important directions. First, this study helps us understand how close destinations need to be to stimulate physical activity. Proximity to destinations is a defining element of walkable communities, the latter being a pattern of land use that supports walking to nearby destinations. If there are no destinations within a reasonable walking distance, then the built environment eliminates the possibility of walking for transportation. The question is, what is a walkable distance? The consensus in the urban planning field is that people will only walk about a quarter of a mile (400 m or 5 min) to a destination, as explained by the authors.