http://www.omhrc.gov/Assets/pdf/Checked/1/ACMH_HealthCareAccessReport.pdf Ensuring that Health Care Reform Will Meet the Health Care Needs of Minority Communities and Eliminate Health Disparities: A Statement of Priniciples and Recommendations.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health (ACMH).
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health . Institute of Medicine (U. S.), Brian D. Smedley, and Adrienne Y. Stith. http://www.iom.edu...
Health Disparities & the Body Politic: A series of International Symposia, Harvard School of Public Health http://www.hsph.harvard.edu
National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2007. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville, MD - AHRQ Publication No. 08-0040-February 2008
Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States http://medicine.plosjournals.org (pdf)
“Importance of Adult Literacy in Understanding Health Disparities,” Tetine Lynn Sentell, PhD,1 and Helen Ann Halpin, PhD 2 J Gen Intern Med. 2006 August; 21(8): 862-866. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov (pdf)
Mama might be better off dead: the failure of health care in urban America
Abraham, Laurie Kaye. At Law: RA418.5 .P6 A26 1993 and Brown Science & Engineering: RA418.5 .P6 A26 1993.
Eliminating Health Disparities: Strengthening Data on Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language in the United States http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov (pdf)
Links from Virginia Commonwealth University’s African American Studies Program http://www.people.vcu.edu
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Health Disparities: A Selected Bibliography from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, January 2000-January 2005. http://www.cdc.gov (pdf)
Race, A Major Outcome Variable: A Historical Perspective (A Selected Bibliography) http://academic.udayton.edu
Kaiser Foundation, “Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care” http://www.kff.org
RACE-BASED THERAPEUTICS
Race-Based Therapeutics, M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D. N Engl J Med, 351;20 November 11, 2004 http://content.nejm.org (pdf)
Combination of Isosorbide Dinitrate and Hydralazine in Blacks with Heart Failure, N Engl J Med, Volume 351 (20) :2049-2057� November 11, 2004. http://content.nejm.org (pdf)
SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES
Unnatural Causes This is the Web site for the campaign and documentary series exploring America's racial and socioeconomic inequities in health coming to PBS in March 2008 http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/
Researching Health Inequalities Among African Americans: The Imperative to Understand Social Class, M. Norman Oliver, Carles Muntaner, International Journal of Health Services, Volume 35, Number 3 (2005) 485 - 498 http://ejscontent.ebsco.com
Implicit Bias among Physicians and its Prediction of Thrombolysis: Decisions for Black and White Patients. Green et al.: JGIM, Published online: 27 June 2007. http://www.springerlink.com (pdf) This study used the Implicit Association Test, which measures differences in implicit cognition http://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Does Racism Harm Health? Did Child Abuse Exist Before 1962? On Explicit Questions, Critical Science, and Current Controversies: An Ecosocial Perspective, February 2003, Vol 93, No. 2, American Journal of Public Health. http://www.ajph.org
How Can Practice-based Research Contribute to the Elimination of Health Disparities?
George Rust, MD, MPH and Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 20 (2): 105-114 (2007) http://www.jabfm.org
US Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations David R. Williams; Chiquita Collins Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 21. (1995), pp. 349-386 http://www.jstor.org/view/03600572/di974067/97p0110s/0
GENETICS
Genetics, race, ethnicity, and health. Neil Pearce, Sunia Foliaki, Andrew Sporle, Chris Cunningham, BMJ 2004;328:1070-1072 (1 May), http://www.bmj.com
Genetic structure, self-identified race/ethnicity, and confounding in case-control association studies. Tang H, et al. American Journal of Human Genetics, 76 (2): 268-275 FEB 2005 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov (pdf)
Genetics for the Human Race, Nature Genetics, November 2004, Volume 36 No 11s,
http://www.nature.com
