Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities Resources
Online E-books (require a UNC computer/IP address, or proxy server and PID):
Balancing the scales of opportunity: ensuring racial and
ethnic diversity in the health professions
Edited by Marion Ein Lewin and Barbara Rice, published by IOM, 1994.
Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health: a
chartbook
Published by Grantmakers in Health, 1998.
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Health Care
Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, Editors, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic
Disparities in Health Care, Board on Health Sciences Policy; Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002.
General Internet Resources:
American Medical Association Minority Affairs
Consortium (AMA-MAC)
"The AMA-MAC provides a national forum for advocacy on minority health issues and professional concerns of minority physicians
and medical students."
Center for Innovation in Health Disparities Research (CIHDR)
Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine
Directory of Health and Human Services Data
Resources
From the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Health Disparities Collaboratives
The Northeast Cluster of the Health Disparities Collaborative identified this Guide to Enhancing Core Functions and Essential
Services for Public Health.
Health Research and Educational Trust
(HRET) - Disparities Toolkit
From the HRET, a Web-based toolkit for collection of race, ethnicity, and primary language
information by hospitals and other health care providers. The toolkit was developed with support from The Commonwealth
Fund.
Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Publications,
Minority Health: Racial Disparities
"Numerous studies over the past two decades have documented racial and ethnic differences in care for heart conditions. To
assess the quality of the evidence and to summarize the information for a physician audience, the Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation collaborated with the American College of Cardiology Foundation to review the body of research on racial/ethnic
differences in cardiac care."
National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2006
From Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
"The 2006 National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) tracks disparities in both quality of and access to health care in
the United States for both the general population and for AHRQ's congressionally designated priority populations."
National Healthcare Quality Report, 2006
From Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
"The 2006 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the
United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and
patient centeredness. Those dimensions cover the four stages of care from the patient perspective (staying healthy, getting
better, living with illness and disability, and coping with the end of life)."
National Standards for Culturally and
Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care
Final report. Prepared by IQ Solutions, Inc. for the Office of Minority Health, March 2001.
Office of Minority Health Publications
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health
Insurance and Health Care
From the Kaiser Family Foundation
"This report, produced in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, examines health insurance coverage and
access to physician services among African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians and
Alaska Natives. By pooling national survey data over two years, information about particular minority subgroups is also
provided."
University of California, San Francisco
Primary Care Resource Links: Cross Cultural Resources
"Cross Cultural Resources - Transcultural, Multicultural; Cultural Competency,
Multi-lingual translated resources"
Women and Heart Disease: An
Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Second edition can be downloaded from this CDC site.