Eliminating health disparities: What works? - January 2010

Jim Anderson, PA-C, ATC January 13, 2010

http://www.jaapa.com/eliminating-health-disparities-what-works--january-2010/article/161059/

Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008 US Census Bureau Report: http://blumenauer.congressnewsletter.net//mail/util.cfm?mailaction=clickthru&gpiv=2100046245.38219.164&gen=1&mailing_linkid=5640

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action (PCHP)

Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Disparities was created to enable diaologue and discussion of issues related to the visibility of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care as a national problem, the development of programs and strategies to reduce disparities and the emergence of new leadership.

Cultural Diversity in Health Care Speaker Series videos presentations from expert lecturers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Cultural Diversity in Health Care Research Symposium video presentations from expert lecturers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Understanding Health Disparities

Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health United States government minority health initiative

Health Disparities Collaborative

Massachusetts General Hospital seeks to bridge healthcare's racial gap

Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse

Case Center for Reducing Health Disparities

FIU Health Disparity Research Group

"Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health", News summary report from kaisernetwork.org

Health inequality in New Zealand

BBC News article regarding health inequalities

EXPORT Project webpage atTuskegee University

VIDEO: Health Status Disparities in the US, April 4, 2007, featuring Paula Braveman, Gregg Bloche, George Kaplan, Thomas Ricketts, Mary Lou deLeon Siantz, and David Williams

National Rural Health Association

Article outlining health disparities among African Americans in Oregon and the development of the African American Wellness Village in Portland:

http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/jul/05_0211.htm

Link to Metro Area Health Risk Data (CDC, National Center for Health Statistics):

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss-smart/index.asp

Total, Infant, and Neonatal Deaths by Race & County in Oregon, 1999 (data from the CDC, National Center for Health Statistics); Oregon data starts on pg.289:

total_infant_neonatal_deaths_by_county_1999.pdf