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- Oliver's Twist: A Blog by Dr. Norm Oliver, Director of UVa Center on Health Disparities
- 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... - “Physican Performance and Racial Disparities in Diabetes Mellius Care,” by Thomas D. Sequist, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2008; 168(11):1145-1151
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/168/11/1145 - 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
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- Course Readings from PH: 501, Ethics and Health Disparities, by Harvard professor Norman Daniels
(get the pdf document here) - Course Readings from UVa AAS 250/ANTH 250: Health of Black Folks, and ANTH 738/ PHS739: Social Production of Health and Disease.
- Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States
http://medicine.plosjournals.org (pdf) - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved:
http://muse.jhu.edu - “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) - Journal of Social Medicine:
http://journals.sfu.ca - Health Affairs - Caring For The Vulnerable: September/October 2007; Vol. 26, No. 5
http://www.healthaffairs.org - 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)
- RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
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- Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research
http://www.rcmar.ucla.edu/index.php - Diversity Resources for UVa Students
http://www.hsc.virginia.edu/internet/bims/diversityresources.cfm - RACE: American Anthropological Association
http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html - National Center on Minority and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
http://ncmhd.nih.gov - Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (OMHD)
http://www.cdc.gov - The Office Of Minority Health (OMH)
http://www.omhrc.gov - Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP)
http://www.cherp.org/index.php - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Disparities
http://www.rwjf.org - Links from Virginia Commonwealth University’s African American Studies Program
http://www.people.vcu.edu
- Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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- 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
- Health Disparities: A Selected Bibliography from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, January 2000-January 2005.
- STATISTICS AND DATA SETS
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- Office of Minority Health: Content Browser
http://www.omhrc.gov - The Health of Minorities in Virginia, 2003 A Report on Vital Events
http://www.vdh.virginia.gov - Kaiser Foundation, “Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care”
http://www.kff.org
- Office of Minority Health: Content Browser
- RACE-BASED THERAPEUTICS
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- 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)
- Race-Based Therapeutics, M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D. N Engl J Med, 351;20 November 11, 2004
- SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES
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- 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 (pdf) - 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
- 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
- GENETICS
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- 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
- Genetics, race, ethnicity, and health. Neil Pearce, Sunia Foliaki, Andrew Sporle, Chris Cunningham, BMJ 2004;328:1070-1072 (1 May),
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