CityMatCH offers this summary of current MCH resource material related to topics highlighted in the Spring / Summer 2006 Edition of CityLights, “Undoing Institutional Racism: Defining Terms; Moving Forward Resources.” Documents can be obtained by contacting the source directly or visiting identified websites. This summary is not intended to be exhaustive but rather to supplement to the learning opportunities within CityLights, and to spark further knowledge.
Organizations
The following section is a listing of all organizational resources listed in the CityMatCH document, “ Undoing Racism in Public Health: A Blueprint for Action in Urban MCH .”
A World of Difference Institute
Contact Information:
Lindsay Friedman
Director
309 W. Washington, Suite 750
Chicago , IL 60606
Phone: 312/782-5080
Fax: 312/782-1142
E-mail: chiadl@adl.org
Website: www.adl.org/awod/awod_institute.asp
Applied Research Center
Contact Information:
Terry Keleher
Project Director
3781 Broadway
Oakland , CA 94611
Phone: 510/653-3415
Fax: 510/653-3427
E-mail: arc@arc.org
Website: www.arc.org
Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE)
Contact Information:
Tim Wise
Director
PO Box 1372
Brentwood , TN 37024-1372
Phone: 615/463-2689
E-mail: tjwise@mindspring.com
California Association of Human Rights Organizations
Contact Information:
Fred Persily
Executive Director
1426 Filmore Street, Suite 216
San Francisco , CA 94115
Phone: 415/775-2341
Fax: 415/775-2342
E-mail: info@cahro.org
Website: www.cahro.org
Center for Assessment and Policy Development
Contact Information:
Sally H. Leiderman
President
111 Presidential Blvd., Suite 234
Bala Cynwyd , PA 19004
Phone: 610/664-4540
Fax: 610/664-6099
E-mail: capd@capd.org
Website: www.capd.org
Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR)
Contact Information:
C. Morgan
Clearing House Manager
PO Box 50469
Atlanta , GA 30320
Phone: 404/221-0025
Fax: 404/221-0045
E-mail: cdr@igc.apc.org
Website: www.publiceye.org/pra/cdr/cdr.html
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
Contact Information:
Sharon Martinas
Coordinator
Chris Crass
Coordinator
2440 16th Street , PMB #275
San Francisco , CA 94103
Phone: 415/647-0921
E-mail: cws@igc.org
Website: www.cwsworkshop.org/
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Contact Information:
Lori Villarose
Program Officer for US Race Relations
503 S. Saginaw Street , 12th Floor
Flint , MI 48502-1851
Phone: 810/238-5651
Fax: 810/766-1753
E-mail: lvillarosa@mott.org
Website: www.mott.org
Crossroads Ministry
Contact Information:
Robette Dias
Co-Executive Director
Chuck Ruehle
Co-Executive Director
425 South Central Park Avenue
Chicago , IL 60624
Phone: 773/638-0166
Changework
Contact Information:
Tema Okun
Co-Director
Kenneth Jones
Co-Director
1705 Wallace Street
Durham , NC 27707
Phone: 919/490-4448
E-mail: adm@changework.net
Website: www.changework.net/frameindex.html
Dismantling Racism Institute
Contact Information:
Reggie Williams
Program Director
721 Olive, Suite 915
St. Louis , MO 63101
Phone: 314/241-5103
Fax: 314/241-4356
E-mail: stlouis@nccj.org
Website: www.nccjstl.org
Equity Assistance Center (EAC)
Contact Information:
Check website for nearest location
Phone: 510/834-9504
Fax: 510/763-1490
Website: www.edgateway.net/pub/docs/205
Fisk University Race Relations Institute
Contact Information:
Raymond A. Winbush
Director
1000 17th Avenue, North
Nashville, TN 37208
Phone: 615/329-8575
Fax: 615/329-8806
E-mail: rwinbush@usit.net
Website: www.fiskrri.org
Haymarket People's Fund
Contact Information:
Pat Maher
Executive Director
42 Seaverns Avenue
Boston , MA 02130
Phone: 617/522-7676
Fax: 617/522-9580
Website: www.haymarket.org/index.htm
Healing the Heart of Diversity
Contact Information:
Patricia Harbour
Director
712 Staunton Ave., NW
Roanoke , VA 24016-1036
Phone: 540/343-5192
Website: www.leadingdiversity.org/ld/
Hope in the Cities
Contact Information:
Robert Corcoran
National Director
Paige Chargois
Associate National Director
1103 Sunset Avenue
Richmond , VA
Phone: 804/358-1764
Fax: 804/358-1769
E-mail: contact@hopeinthecities.org
Website: www.hopeinthecities.org/
Institute on Race and Poverty
Contact Information:
John A. Powell
Executive Director
University of Minnesota Law School
415 Law Center, 229 19th Avenue, South
Minneapolis , MN 55455
Phone: 612/625-8071
Fax: 612/624-8890
E-mail: irp@tc.umn.edu
Website: www.umn.edu/irp/
James Irvine Foundation
Contact Information:
Heather G. Graham
Grants Manager
One Market Street
Steuart Tower , Suite 2500
San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: 415/777-2244
Fax: 415/777-0869
Website: www.irvine.org
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
Contact Information:
Barbara R. Arnwine
Executive Director
1401 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington , DC , 20005-0400
Phone: 202/662-8600
Fax: 202/783-0857
Website: www.lawyerscomm.org
Leadership Conference Education Fund (LCEF) / on Civil Rights (LCCR)
Contact Information:
Karen McGill Lawson
Executive Director
1629 K Street, NW, Suite 1010
Washington , DC , 20006
Phone: 202/466-3311
Fax: 202/466-3435
E-mail: comlccr@civilrights.org
Website: www.civilrights.org
Levi Strauss Foundation
Contact Information:
1155 Battery Street , 7th floor
San Franciso , CA 94111
Website: www.levistrauss.com
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
Contact Information:
Gayle Williams
Executive Director
2522 Reynolds Road
Winston-Salem , NC 27106-5123
Phone: 336/748-9222
Fax: 336/777-0095
E-mail: info@mrbf.org
Website: www.mrbf.org
MultiCultural Collaborative (MCC)
Contact Information:
Bong Hwan Kim
Executive Director
1010 S. Flower Street, #304
Los Angeles , CA 90015
Phone: 213/748-2105
Fax: 213/748-3143
E-mail: grancirco@aol.com
Website: www.mcc-la.org/
National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
Contact Information:
John Taylor
President / CEO
735 - 15th Street, Suite 540
Washington , DC , 20005-2112
Phone: 202/628-8866
Fax: 202/628-9800
E-mail: HN1748@handsnet.org
Website: www.ncrc.org
Otto Bremer Foundation
Contact Information:
John Kostishack
Executive Director
445 Minnesota Street, Suite 2000
St. Paul , MN 55101-2107
Phone: 651/227-8036
Fax: 651/312-3550
E-mail: obf@bremer.com
Website: www.fdncenter.org/grantmaker/bremer/index.html
Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)
Contact Information:
Denise Rivera Portis
Office Manager
3000 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200
Washington , DC , 20008
Phone: 202/387-9884
Fax: 202/387-0764
E-mail: info@prrac.org
Website: www.prrac.org
Project Change
Contact Information:
Shirley Strong
Executive Director
PO Box 29919
San Francisco , CA 94129-0919
Phone: 415/561-4880
Fax: 415/561-4875
E-mail: pcsanfran@projectchange.org
Website: www.projectchange.org/www.anti-racism.net
Public Welfare Foundation
Contact Information:
Adisa Douglas
Director of Programs
1200 U Street, NW
Washington , DC , 20009
Phone: 202/965-1800
E-mail: general@publicwelfare.org
Website: www.publicwelfare.org
Racial Justice & Equity Project
Contact Information:
John Tucker
Project Director
Peace & Justice Center
21 Church Street
Burlington , VT 05401
Phone: 802/864-0659
E-mail: jtucker@pjcvt.org; info@pjcvt.org
Website: www.pjcvt.org/rejp.htm
Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED)
Contact Information:
Peggy McIntosh
Co-Director
Emily Style
Co-Director
Wellesley College Center for Research on Women
Wellesley, MA 02481
Phone: 973/763-6378, 283-2520
Fax: 973/763-5670; 781/283-2504
E-mail: mmcintosh@wellesley.edu
Website: www.wcwonline.org/seed/index.html
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Contact Information:
Abraham Cooper
Associate Dean
9760 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles , CA 90035-4792
Phone: 310/553-9036
Fax: 310/553-8007
E-mail: webmaster@wiesenthal.com
Website: www.wiesenthal.com
Southern Poverty Law Center
Contact Information:
Joe Levin
Executive Director
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery , AL 36104
Phone: 334/956-8200
Website: www.splcenter.org
Study Circles Resource Center
Contact Information:
Martha McCoy
Director
PO Box 203
Pomfrey , CT 06258
Phone: 860/928-2616
Fax: 860/928-3713
E-mail: scrc@neca.com
Website: www.studycircles.org
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
Contact Information:
Ron Daniels
Executive Director
666 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York , NY 10012
Phone: 212/614-6464
Fax: 212/614-6499
E-mail: info@ccr-ny.org
The Ford Foundation
Contact Information:
Barron M. Tenny
Secretary
320 E. 43rd Street
New York , NY 10017
Phone: 212/573-5000
Fax: 212/351-3677
E-mail: office-communication@fordfound.org
Website: www.fordfound.org
The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
Contact Information:
Contact Information:
Joyce Dubensky
Director of Communications
475 Park Avenue South , 19th floor
New York , NY 10016-6901
Phone: 212/545-1300
Fax: 212/545-8053
E-mail: nationaloffice@nccj.org
Website: www.nccj.org
The National Network of Anti-Racism & Community Building Training Institutes
Contact Information:
Shirley Strong
Institute for Democratic Renewal
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont , CA 91711-6163
Phone: 510/482-3286
Fax: 510/482-3241
E-mail: sstrong@projectchange.org
Website: www.projectchange.org/network.html
The Prejudice Institute / Center for the Applied Study of Ethnoviolence
Contact Information:
Howard J. Ehrlich
Executive Director
2743 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore , MD 21218
Phone: 410/366-9654
Fax: 410/366-9656
E-mail: prejinst@aol.com
Website: www.prejudiceinstitute.org
UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc.
Contact Information:
Walt Swanston
Executive Director
PO Box 12365
Arlington, VA 22219
Phone: 703/841-9099
Fax: 703/841-9098
E-mail: unity1999@aol.com
Website: www.unity1999.org
VISIONS - Vigorous InterventionS into Ongoing Natural Settings
Contact Information:
Valerie Batts
Director
17 Spring Valley
Arlington , VA 02476
Phone: 781/643-5190
Website: www.visions-inc.com
W.K.Kellogg Foundation
Contact Information:
Nancy A. Sims
Grant Proposals
One Michigan Avenue East
Battle Creek , MI 49017-4058
Phone: 616/968-1611
Fax: 616/968-0413
Website: www.wkkf.org
White People Working on Racism
Contact Information:
George Lakay
Director
1501 Cherry St .
Philadelphia , PA 19102
Phone: 215/241-7035
Website: www.TrainingForChange.org
Women of Color Fundraising Institute
Contact Information:
Felicia Chao
Program Coordinator
Haymarket People's Fund Building
42 Seaverns Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
Phone: 617/983-5200
Fax: 617/983-5210
E-mail: information@wocfi.org
Website: www.wocfi.org/index.htm
Peace Development Fund
Contact Information:
PO Box 1280
44 North Prospect Street
Amherst , MA 01004
Phone: 413/256-8306
Fax: 413/256-8871
Website: www.peacefund.org/mainpage.htm
Office of Minority Health (OMH)
The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities.
OMH was established in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science on public health program activities affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders.
The OMHRC Knowledge Center : The OMHRC Knowledge Center contains a collection of more than 4,700 documents, reports, books, journals, newsletters, and more than 16,000 articles related to the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations. The library collection also includes sources of consumer health material in more than 24 languages.
The OMHRC Knowledge Center Information Specialists can respond to requests from the public by providing selective bibliographies of articles and books in its collection.
Use of the OMHRC Knowledge Center is available for research purposes only, however, it is open to the public Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. by appointment. Information Specialists and a Librarian can help visitors locate any information they need. Also, the library's databases act as online resources to help locate articles, books, associations, community and funding organizations. Books and journals cannot be borrowed, as the library is non-circulating.
The OMHRC Knowledge Center is located at:
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 650
Rockville , Maryland 20852
1-800-444-6472
CDC's Office of Minority Health
The Office of Minority Health (OMH) works closely with state, tribal and local governments, as well as nonprofit organizations to improve health status and eliminate health disparities among Americans of all racial and ethnic groups. The combined resources of CDC/ATSDR and its partners provide the vital link between policy and practice.
The CDC is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). CDC's major organizational components respond individually in their areas of expertise and pool their resources and expertise on cross-cutting issues and specific health threats.
Link to Reports and Publications here: http://www.cdc.gov/omh/reportspubs.htm
Links to Minority Health Resources Pages:
Cooperative Agreements
Federal, State & Tribal
Regional Minority Health Consultants
State Minority Health Consultants
State Health Departments
National, Regional & State Organizations
Academic Institutions & Affiliations
Professional Associations
Faith-Based Organizations
http://www.cdc.gov/omh/
The National Coalition Building Institute
The National Coalition Building Institute is an international, non-profit, leadership training organization based in Washington , DC , USA . Since 1984, NCBI has worked to eliminate racism and all other forms of prejudice and discrimination throughout the world.
The NCBI approach, including leaders from all sectors of society, proven leadership training, and an international network of local resource teams, has proven to be essential for long-lasting social and institutional change. The effectiveness of NCBI and its teams has resulted in numerous awards, favorable media coverage, and noteworthy testimonials.
The work of NCBI -- its mission, its workshops and trainings, its network of resource teams, and its contribution to long-lasting institutional and social change -- is guided by several core principles and key insights.
Core Principles
Every issue counts. NCBI addresses a wide range of diversity issues in the course of its programs, including race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and job and life circumstance. Prejudice and discrimination cannot be eliminated in one area while continuing to exist in another.
Personal stories change attitudes. Listening to accounts of discrimination can impart a new perspective on how devastating the impact and move people with racist and other prejudicial attitudes to become allies of those they have mistreated.
Eliminating mistreatment means ending “leadership oppression.” Leaders often experience isolation and a lack of support, sometimes bordering on abuse. NCBI trains them to handle conflict and respond effectively to attacking behaviors. Everyone is taught respect and appreciation for leaders and their efforts, especially when disagreeing with them. Well-supported leaders are more likely to be a source of sound policies.
Key Insights
Differences among individuals need not lead to discrimination and divisiveness. NCBI's Welcoming Diversity / Prejudice Reduction Workshop , for example, encourages participants to confront deeply-held misinformation about themselves and others, to tell their own stories of discrimination in order to build understanding among people, and to learn skills for building bridges.
Differences among groups can be a community asset. While sometimes overshadowed by misinformation and misunderstanding that needs to be addressed, every group has enormous strengths. Constituency Caucus Programs provide safe, unfiltered environments in which to build authentic pride in shared wisdom, traditions, and heritage, voice common concerns, and build greater unity.
Differences on issues need not divide communities. Rigid confrontational positions can be reframed to take into account the profound concerns of both sides. NCBI's Controversial Issues Process provides leaders with the skills needed to identify common ground and to create mutually-acceptable strategies for handling difficult issues.
http://www.ncbi.org/home/index.cfm
The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond
The People's Institute was founded in 1980 to develop more analytical, culturally-rooted and effective community organizers. Over the past 24 years, The People's Institute Undoing Racism™/ Community Organizing process has impacted the lives of nearly 100,000 people both nationally and internationally. Through this process, it has built a national collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers who do their work with an understanding of history, culture, and the impact of racism on communities. These anti-racist organizers build leadership in and account to the constituencies where they are organizing.
The People's Institute) believes that effective community and institutional change
happens when those who would make change understand how race and racism function as a barrier to community self determination and self sufficiency.
Today, The People's Institute is recognized as one of the foremost anti-racism training
and organizing institutions in the nation. In the last three years, The People's Institute has:
• Equipped over 12,000 community organizers to implement anti-racist principles through practices in neighborhoods, programs and institutions where they work;
• Tripled the size of its core organizing/training team (to over 30, currently);
• Inaugurated the Jim Dunn Center for Anti-Racist Community Organizing with an Organizers' Roundtable leadership of 200 anti-racist organizers;
• Provided leadership for a new national Anti-Racism Training Institute, with sites in Albuquerque, Seattle, New Orleans and Broward County, FL.
Current Programs and Activities
Undoing Racism™/Community Organizing: An average of 10-15 groups per month participate in The People's Institute Undoing Racism™/Community Organizing process. Through dialogue, reflection, role-playing, strategic planning and presentations, this intensive process challenges participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice. Additionally, The People's Institute regularly gives introductory workshops on Undoing Racism™ to the community at large.
Community Organizing Strategy Team (C.O.S.T): Participants in the Undoing Racism™/Community Organizing process often seek long-term assistance from The People's Institute as they develop anti-racist community organizing strategies. C.O.S.T. works with community activists to analyze their organizations, their roles, their relationships with one another across racial and cultural lines. The team assists community groups to establish goals, identify and develop indigenous leadership and account to organized constituents. The People's Institute C.O.S.T. works with the Mid-South Delta Initiative, the National Network of Anti-Racist Training Institutes, and many regional groups.
Reflection, Assessment, Evaluation Team (R.A.E.): The People's Institute is committed to an assessment process, guided by community leaders, that is based on a community's values and self-determined goals. R.A.E. helps an organization or group state, observe and measure its vision and values with as much energy and commitment as it measures its “objective” goals and outcomes. This assessment process is based on The People's Institute nine core organizing principles:
1. Undoing racism
2. Learning from history
3. Sharing culture
4. Maintaining accountability to constituents
5. Developing leadership
6. Networking – building a “net” that works
7. Undoing Internalized Racial Oppression (internalized racial inferiority and internalized racial superiority)
8. Anti-racist gatekeeping
9. Undoing manifestations of institutional racism, including militarism as applied racism
European Dissent: Fifteen years ago, a group of white anti-racist organizers (persons of European Descent who “dissent” from the racist institutions and values designed to benefit them) initiated European Dissent, a collective that explore ways to practice The People's Institute principles in their personal, social, family and work lives.
The People's Institute Youth Agenda (P.I.Y.A.): PIYA identifies and mentors young anti-racist organizers in colleges and in the neighborhoods where The People's Institute does its work. Since 1996, youth have modified the Undoing Racism™/Community Organizing process so it is credible for youth. In 1997, they adapted The People's Institute principles and analysis for a summer Freedom School , modeled on the citizenship schools of the Civil Rights era. Since then, Freedom Schools have reached over 400 children and youth in New Orleans and Oakland . In 2003, Freedom Schools are planned in Seattle , Duluth and Minneapolis , MN , and Atlanta . GA.
The Jim Dunn Center for Anti-Racist Community Organizing: The Jim Dunn Center is a New Orleans initiative of The People's Institute. When it initiated the Jim Dunn Center in 2000, The People's Institute called together community organizers from throughout Louisiana who use anti-racist principles and the analysis of The People's Institute in their lives, their faith, their work and their communities. Today, the Jim Dunn Center activities are designed and led by an Organizers' Roundtable, a collective of over 200 anti-racist community organizers from throughout Southeast Louisiana .
Initiative to Eliminate Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health
Information about eliminating racial disparities in HIV infection and AIDS.
http://raceandhealth.hhs.gov/
1. Undoing Racism in Public Health: A Blueprint for Action in Urban MCH
A Special Report to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, CityMatCH
Despite considerable work to the contrary, racial and ethnic disparities in health persist and are even increasing in some areas. Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities is a sustained, strategic priority in City M at CH 's work with over 150 member local health departments whose jurisdictions include the largest 200 cities and major metropolitan areas in the nation.
This report aims to:
- Examine the scientific basis for racism as a determinant of health status and health disparities, and institutional racism manifests in health care and health departments;
- Provide an overview of existing directions, options and resources for “Undoing Racism;” and
- Outline a series of activities for a local public health-based Undoing Racism initiative, ranging from awareness to action.
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2003)
Board on Health Sciences Policy ( HSP )
Institute of Medicine ( IOM )
The National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu/books/030908265X/html/
Other Resources and Tools
1. Knowledge Paths at the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library, Georgetown University – Knowledge paths on MCH-related topics contain selections of recent, high quality resources and tools for staying abreast of new developments and conducting further research. Components of a knowledge path include links to Web sites, electronic publications, databases, and discussion groups, and citations for journal articles and other print resources.
Knowledge Path: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, September 2005
This knowledge path presents a selection of current, high-quality resources about identifying and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health. The path is aimed at health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, researchers, and families, and is updated periodically.
http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_race.html
2. Excellence Centers to Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities (EXCEED)
The health of Americans has improved over the past few decades, but not all Americans have benefited equally. Many ethnic and racial groups have not shared in the advances in health outcomes and health care. To understand the causes and factors of these inequalities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded grants to nine "Excellence Centers To Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities" (EXCEED). Each center is investigating a different theme in an effort to identify and eliminate the causes of health disparities.
The nine EXCEED projects are supported by AHRQ in partnership with other agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services, including:
- The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
- The National Cancer Institute.
- The National Institute of General Medical Sciences .
- The Health Resources and Services Administration.
The nine EXCEED projects are:
- Access and Quality of Care for Vulnerable Black Populations. Identifies and examines effective interventions for chronically ill African-American adults and low-income children who primarily receive care from community providers in inner-city and rural areas. (Principal investigator: Robert M. Mayberry, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta , GA. )
- Health Disparities in Minority Adult Americans. Examines the effects of communication barriers and interventions to improve cultural competence on cancer screening and management of hypertension among minority elderly populations. (Principal investigator: Edmund M. Ricci, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA. )
- Improving the Delivery of Effective Care to Minorities. Assesses reasons for the underuse of effective interventions for managing premature birth, breast cancer, stroke, and hypertension in ethnically diverse Harlem communities and evaluates ways to eliminate underuse. (Principal investigator: Mark R. Chassin, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.)
- Overcoming Racial Health Disparities. Focuses on addressing health disparities in cancer, hypertension, and HIV disease among African American adults, particularly in rural settings; includes collaborative research partnerships with two historically black universities. (Principal investigator: Timothy S. Carey, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill , NC .)
- Promoting Effective Communication and Decision Making for Diverse Populations. Assesses strategies to enhance communication and decisionmaking by ethnic/racial minority populations, including developing decision aids for use in coronary disease and cancer screening. (Principal investigator: A. Eugene Washington, University of California , San Francisco , CA .)
- Racial and Ethnic Variation in Medical Interactions. Assesses the extent to which problems in doctor-patient communication contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care use. Also aims to develop effective strategies for disseminating information and building research capacity. (Principal investigator: Carol M. Ashton, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston , TX .)
- UCLA/Drew/RAND Program To Address Disparities in Health. Identifies principal factors responsible for ethnic/racial disparities and tests randomized interventions to address those factors for infant mortality, colon cancer, diabetes, and ischemic heart disease. (Principal investigator: Martin F. Shapiro, University of California , Los Angeles , CA .)
- Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities in Blacks. Examines strategies to address disparities in health status between African Americans and whites, including those in rural areas, with specific clinical conditions including HIV disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Principal investigator: Barbara Tilley, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston , SC. )
- Understanding and Reducing Native Elder Health Disparities . Investigates issues relating to reducing health inequities among elderly American Indians/Alaska Natives, such as diabetes care and increasing participation in cancer screening and other clinical preventive services. (Principal investigator: Spero M. Manson, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.)
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/exceed.htm
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/minorix.htm
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
Documents: Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Visit the National Academies Press website at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10260.html
Authors: Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, Editors, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Description: Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain…
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