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Alabama Rural Health LinksA Statistical Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade
Birmingham Population Diversity
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Cultural Competence in Health Care
Education
Grants
Health & Ethnic Minorities
Minority Health Archives
National Health Disparities Report 2005
National Healthcare Quality Report 2006
Organizations /Agencies
Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care: The Basics
RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
Guides
LaVeist, Thomas A. Minority populations and health: an introduction to health disparities in the United States. 1st .ed.WA 300 L284 2005
Aday, Lu Ann. At risk in America: the health and
health care needs of vulnerable populations in the United States 2nd.ed.
WA 540 .AA1 A32 2001
Kilty, Keith M. and Elizabeth A. Segal, (eds.). Rediscovering
the other America: the continuing crisis of poverty and inequality in the United States.
HV 4045 R424 2003
Health Policy Tracking Service. Major
health care policies: fifty state profiles, 2001 / a publication of the Health Policy Tracking Service; National Conference of State Legislatures.
Hidden
costs, value lost: uninsurance in America / Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine. Smedley, Brian D., et al. (eds.). Unequal
treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care Committe
on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.
Board on Health Sciences Policy. Institute
of Medicine of The
National Academies. Morgan, Kathleen O'Leary and Scott Morgan
(eds.). Health
care state rankings 2003: health care
in the 50 United States, 10th ed. Baxter, Carol, (ed.) Managing diversity and inequality in health care. Kass, Barbara L. et al. Disparities and gender gaps in women's health, 1996: health
insurance, access to care, health status. Aguirre-Molina, Marilyn and Carlos W. Molina, (eds.) Latina
health in the United States : a public health reader. Byrd, W. Michael and Linda A. Clayton. An American health dilemma: a medical history of African
Americans and the problem of race. Quality through collaboration: the
future of rural health / Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care.
Board on Health Care Services. Literacy
and health outcomes: Evidence Report/Technology
Assessment Number 87 / prepared for Agency for healthcare Research and Quality, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. Mason, Tom et al, (eds.). Stigma and social exclusion in healthcare.
Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog
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Harvard Launches Popular Risk Assessment Website in Spanish: New site reaches
Hispanic/Latinos with personalized disease prevention messages.
A State Policy Agenda to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. June 2004.(Complete document in PDF)
REF WA 540 .AA1 H276 2002
W 250 .AA1 H42 2003
Handbooks, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries
WA 300 U546 2003
REF WA 900
.AA1 M673 2003
W 84.1 M266 2001
WA 900 .AA1 K27 2001
UAB MHRC Resources
Database of Minority Health Related Work at UAB
MHRC Services & Benefits
Publications
The
Commonwealth Fund – Why Not the Best? National Scorecard 2008 (Publication)
A Call to Action – Americas Health Ranking 2007
National Healthcare Disparities Report 2006
Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities Toolkit
Resources by Ethnic / Minority Group:
Hispanics/Latino
Resources by Ethnic Group and Disease:
AIDS
Clinical Trials - African American (NIH)
Clinical Trials - Hispanics (NIH)
Cardiovascular
Stroke
Selected Journals
International
journal for equity in health (e-journal)
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
The American journal of public health
The Journal of rural health
Journal of health and social behavior
National vital statistics reports: from the Center for
Disease Control and Prevention
Selected Textbooks
de Chesnay, Mary, (ed.) Caring
for the vulnerable: perspectives in nursing theory, practice,
and research. 1st ed.
WY 106 C274 2005
Wa 309 L274 2003
WB 720 B972 2000
WA 390 Q144 2005
WA 590 L574 2004
W 84 .FA1 S7 2001
More Books
Resources for the Community
Cancer Risk: Understanding the Puzzle (NCI interactive)Videos, Books, Publications
Bridging the Divide: Medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities.
Cancer Clinical Trials: Participation by Underrepresented Populations: Fact Sheet (Complete document in PDF)
CDC Health Statistics 2004
Creating A State Minority Health Policy Report Card (Publication) (Complete document in PDF)
Cross-Cultural Medicine (Book)
Cultural Competence And Health Care Disparities: Key Perspectives And Trends (Publication)
Complete document in PDF)
Disparities in Patient Experiences, Health Care Processes, and Outcomes: The Role of Patient-Provider Racial, Ethnic, and Language Concordance. July 2004.(Complete document in PDF)
Eliminating African-American Health Disparity via History-based Policy (Publication)
Eliminating disparities in treatment and the struggle to end segregation (Publication)
eNews form UAB MHRC - Americans' views of Disparities in Health Care 1-22-06
Equity measures and systems reform as tools for reducing radial and ethnic disparities in health care (Publication)
Examining the Health Disparities Research – Plan of the NIH: Unfinished Business (Publication)
Healers: Holistic Health Care For Women of Color (Video)
Health Centers Reauthorization: An Overview of Achievements and Challenges
Health Disparity Conference in Obesity & Diabetes (Video)
Hispanics - Genes, Culture and Medicines (Publication)
Hispanic Population Dynamics (Publication)
Listening to Rural Alabama: A Report on Alabama Rural Prosperity Forums (Publication)
Looking Through a Glass, Darkly: Eliminating Health Disparities – Preventing Chronic Disease 7 20 06 (Publication)
Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Why and How? JAMA. 2004;292:1612-1614
Methods for Measuring Cancer Disparities: Using data relevant to Healthy People 2010 cancer-related objectives (publication)
National Health Disparities Report 2005
New AMA video on Health Care Disparities (Video)
Obesity Among US Immigrant Subgroups by Duration of Residence (Publication)
Policy Challenges and Opportunities in Closing the Racial/Ethnic Divide in Health Care - March 2005 (Publication)
Preparing African-American Men in Community Primary Care Practices to Decide Whether or Not to Have Prostate Cancer Screening (Publication)
Race: The Power of an Illusion (Video)
Race, Ethnicity and Health Care - July 2004 (Video)
Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care: The Basics
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Publication)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Women’s Health Coverage and Access To Care -
Findings from the 2001 Kaiser Women’s Health Survey
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Time to Acute Reperfusion Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Myocardial Infarction JAMA. 2004;292:1563-1572 (Publication)
Read the July 2004 FP Report article on the launch of Caring for Hispanic Patients
Religion, Health and Medicine in African Americans
Report 1 of the Council on Scientific Affairs: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care ( American Medical Association) (Publication)
Resources - Americans' views of Disparities in Health Care 2005
Satisfaction with and Perceived Cultural Competency of Healthcare Providers - The Minority Experience (Publication)
Sullivan Commission Report: Missing Persons - Minorities in Health Care Professions (Watch Web Cast) (Complete document in PDF)
The Commonwealth Fund - Publications on Underserved Populations / Minorities
The New Latino South: The Context and Consequences of Rapid Population Growth (Publication)
The New Race Question - How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals (Book)
The Role Of Health Insurance Coverage In Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Health Care (Publication)
(Complete document in PDF)
The Role Of Health Insurance Coverage In Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Health Care
The Unequal Burden of Cancer: An Assessment of NIH Research and Programs for Ethnic Minorities
and the Medically Underserved (1999) (Book)
Trends in the Healthy of Americans (Health, United States, 2005) (CDC)
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2003) (Book)