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Topic Pages: Minorities

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Tools

  • Closing the Health Gap
    Devoted to health topics of concern to minority communities.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Minority Health Information Guide
    Resources and information about minority health issues in rural areas.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health
    Aimed at eliminating disparities in health status experienced by ethnic minority populations in key health areas.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Cancer Health Disparities
    Cancer statistics for African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations. Includes information on NCI research activities related to cancer health disparities.
    Sponsoring organization: National Cancer Institute
  • Race, Ethnicity and Health Care: Access to Care for Vulnerable Populations
    Discusses the role of race and ethnicity in health care.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care: The Basics
    Contains a reference library with documents regarding demographics; health status; health coverage, access to care, and quality of care; state-level data, and public opinion.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation

Success Stories

  • Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project
    Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project is a health education and screening project targeting obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke in at-risk African American adolescents and adults in the parishes of Bienville, Lincoln and Jackson.

Funding

  • 2010 Minority Nurse Scholarship Program
    Annual scholarship program to help outstanding students complete their studies leading to a BSN degree.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Feb 1, 2010
        Sponsor: MinorityNurses.Com
  • Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program
    The program's purpose is to expand the pool of students of color interested in the field of health policy.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Dec 4, 2009
        Sponsor: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Health Care Disparities Grant Program
    Grants to improve the quality of health care delivered to low-income and minority Americans, and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Commonwealth Fund
  • Regional Community Health Grants Program
    This program provides funding focused on reducing disparities in health care among racial and ethnic populations in eligible geographic areas.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Aetna Foundation
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Unsolicited Grants
    Grants to address health care workforce, innovative health care solutions, and health care to vulnerable populations.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • The Nathan Cummings Foundation Health Program Grants
    Provides grants to improve health and well-being. Programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Publications

  • Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Children (Appendix - Methods, Data Sources, and Detailed Tables)
    Appendix of report on rural minority children and the factors affecting their health insurance coverage and health services use.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Charity Moore, Karin Willert Roof, Elizabeth G. Baxley, Michael E. Samuels
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 11 / 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Children (Report)
    Examines rural minority children and the factors affecting their health insurance coverage and health services use. Includes policy recommendations and statistical information.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Charity Moore, Karin Willert Roof, Elizabeth G. Baxley, Michael E. Samuels
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 11 / 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Older Adults (Appendix - Methods, Data, and Detailed Tables)
    Appendix of report on health status and health services use among poor and minority older adults in non-metro areas.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Charity G. Moore, Joette Gdovin
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 10 / 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Older Adults (Report)
    Examines health status and health services use among poor and minority older adults in non-metro areas. Findings included: A greater proportion of non-metro than metropolitan elders report limitations in their ability to carry out activities of daily living (44% versus 37%). Government programs (Medicare and Medicaid) are the principal source of insurance for non-metro minority elders.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Charity G. Moore, Joette Gdovin
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 10 / 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Access to Care Among Rural Minorities: Working Age Adults
    Describes access to health care among working age adults of rural minorities. Data from the 1997 - 1998 National Health Interview Survey were used to examine health insurance coverage and recent physician visits among rural working age adults. Low income and low levels in the non-metro areas translated into jobs that did not offer health insurance. Non-metro minorities were particularly disadvantaged, with rates of uninsurance ranging from 47% among the Hispanic population to 30% among non-metro African Americans.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Charity G. Moore
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 01 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Access to Dental Care for Rural Low Income and Minority Populations
    Examines the relationships between rural residence, income, race/ethnicity, and access to dental care, based on data from the 1999 National Health Interview Survey.
    Author(s): Michelle M. Casey, Gestur Davidson, Ira Moscovice, David Born
    Sponsoring organization: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 09 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Around the Country: Missouri New Center Examines Health Care Disparities
    Discusses a partnership between the University of Missouri Center for Health Policy and Washington University in St. Louis. Includes information on the establishment of a center that will focus on racial and ethnic health care disparities within the state's rural and urban areas.
    Author(s): Thomas D. Rowley
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
    Journal citation: Rural Monitor Issue: Spring Date: 04 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Black Male: Why the Mid South Cannot Afford to Ignore the Disparities Facing its Black Men and Boys
    Describes the status of black males ages 16-44 in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to raise awareness to the disparities and difficulties that they are experiencing. This age group tends to reflect large numbers facing multiple disparities including poverty, low graduation rates, high unemployment, poor health, and high incarceration rates, among others.
    Author(s): Chris Crothers, Tim Murphy, Bill Rankin
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation for the Mid-South
    Format: PDF
  • Disparities in Health Coverage, Access, and Quality: The Impact of Citizenship Status and Language on Low-Income Immigrants
    Examines roles of race/ethnicity, citizenship, and language on insurance coverage, access to care, and quality of care, with a particular focus on the low-income Latino population.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 08 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Enhancing Public Hospitals Reporting of Data on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care
    Discusses the ability of hospitals with large minority populations to use existing quality-of-care measures to reduce racial/ethnic disparities.
    Author(s): B. Siegel, M. Regenstein, K. Jones
    Sponsoring organization: Commonwealth Fund
    Date: 01 / 2007
    Format: PDF
  • Health Care Experiences
    Discusses the 2002 National Survey of Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation, examining the experiences of Latinos with health insurance and the health care system.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 03 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Health Departments Take Action: A Compendium of State and Local Models Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
    Model state and local programs addressing health disparities. Topics addressed include chronic disease prevention, health professional training, community assessment and development, general health promotion, and more.
    Sponsoring organization: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
    Date: 2001
    Format: PDF
  • Hispanic Health Needs Assessment
    Provides communities with tools to self-identify critical health issues and priorities through existing public health data systems as well as community surveys. Written for Hispanic communities, it could be adaptable to other minority communities.
    Date: 2001
    Format: PDF
  • HIV/AIDS Among African Americans
    Contains a variety of facts and information on HIV/AIDS and African Americans.
    Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of Minority Health
    Date: 01 / 2006
    Format: PDF
  • HIV/AIDS Among Women
    Provides data about the impact of HIV and AIDS among women, including young women and minority women.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Date: 11 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • HIV/AIDS in Rural America: Disproportionate Impact on Minority and Multicultural Populations
    Overview of the impact of AIDS and HIV in rural areas. Summarizes the epidemiology of AIDS/HIV, including its impact on rural minority groups. Discusses the challenges rural areas face in preventing AIDS. Includes policy recommendations.
    Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
    Date: 07 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • How Race/Ethnicity, Immigration Status, and Language Affect Health Insurance Coverage, Access to and Quality of Care Among the Low-Income Population (Full Report)
    Discusses the roles that race, language and citizenship status play in insurance coverage, access to health care and quality of health care, particularly for the low-income Latino population.
    Author(s): Leighton Ku, Timothy Waidmann
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
    Date: 08 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Key Facts: Latinos and HIV/AIDS
    Comprehensive data on the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on Latinos in the United States. Includes an overview and epidemic profile, as well as data on major trends, access to and use of health services, and perceptions of HIV/AIDS.
    Author(s): Sonia Ruiz, Jennifer Kates, Claire Oseran Pontius
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 07 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care
    Chartbook on racial/ethnic disparities in health, health insurance coverage, and health care access and quality. Includes data and literature review.
    Author(s): Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Osula Evadne Rushing, Sonia Ruiz
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 06 / 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Life-Saving Message for Hispanic/Latino Communities
    Latino-Americans are the least likely of five racial/ethnic groups to have a regular source of health care.
    Journal citation: California - Rural Health Advocate Volume: 2 Issue: 8 Date: 04 / 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
    Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General that provides comprehensive coverage of issues relevant to the mental health of racial and ethnic minorities.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Date: 2001
    Format: PDF
  • Minorities in Rural America (Report)
    An overview of demographic and economic statistics pertaining to rural minority populations. Description of rural minorities by location, age and sex. Description of rural minority communities' economic structure and health resources. Includes health policy recommendations.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Kristen P. Jespersen, Karin Willert, R. Suzanne Swann, Joshua A. McDuffie
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Minorities in Rural America: Appendix A Description of Method and Supporting Tables Tables Ordered by Chapter
    Appendix of a report that gives an overview of demographic and economic statistics pertaining to rural minority populations.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Kristen P. Jespersen, Karin Willert, R. Suzanne Swann, Joshua A. McDuffie
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Minorities in Rural America: Appendix B Map Supplement
    Appendix to report on overview of demographic and economic statistics pertaining to rural minority populations. Maps.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Kristen P. Jespersen, Karin Willert, R. Suzanne Swann, Joshua A. McDuffie
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Minorities in Rural America: Appendix C Economic Patterns in Non-Metro America
    Appendix to report on an overview of demographic and economic statistics pertaining to rural minority populations. Focuses on economic status and health services infrastructure.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Kristen P. Jespersen, Karin Willert, R. Suzanne Swann, Joshua A. McDuffie
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2003
    The report includes a broad set of performance measures that can serve as baseline views of differences in the use of services.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 07 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005
    Comprehensive national overview of disparities in health care. Covers health care quality and health care access issues. Includes a section on health disparities experienced in rural areas.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 12 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • The New Latino South: The Context and Consequences of Rapid Population Growth
    This report focuses on the growth of the Latino population in six Southern states - Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. These states registered fast rates of Hispanic population growth between the censuses of 1990 and 2000 and continue to outpace the national average in the most recent census estimates.
    Author(s): Rakesh Kochhar, Roberto Suro, Sonya Tafoya
    Sponsoring organization: Pew Hispanic Center
    Date: 02 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Prevalence of Health Related Behavioral Risk Factors Among Non-Metro Minority Adults
    Provides data on tobacco use, seat belt use, and alcohol consumption among rural minority adults. Includes recommendations and detailed data tables.
    Author(s): P. Daniel Patterson, Charity G. Moore, Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 08 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Race and Place: Urban-Rural Differences in Health for Racial and Ethnic Minorities
    This findings brief investigates urban-rural disparities for racial and ethnic minorities in six health areas: infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection, and child and adult immunizations.
    Author(s): Rebecca T. Slifkin, Laurie J. Goldsmith, Thomas C. Ricketts,
    Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
    Date: 03 / 2000
    Format: PDF
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health 2010: Addressing Disparities in Health 2007
    This brief report documents racial and ethnic disparities in health, and describes some of the programs associated with the CDC's REACH 2010 efforts to eliminate these disparities.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Date: 2007
    Format: PDF
  • Rural Populations and Health Care Providers: A Map Book
    Uses 2000 Census data to reassess and provide a visual picture of where rural people live, how the racial and ethnic nature of rural populations is changing, and whether the distribution of health care providers matches the population distribution.
    Author(s): Randy Randolph, Katherine Gaul, Rebecca Slifkin
    Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
    Date: 09 / 2002
    Format: HTML
  • Serving Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results of a Community Health Center Survey
    Discusses the challenges of serving people with limited English proficiency (LEP) at health care safety net organizations.
    Sponsoring organization: National Association of Community Health Centers
    Date: 06 / 2008
    Format: PDF
  • Surveillance for Dental Caries, Dental Sealants, Tooth Retention, Edentulism, and Enamel Fluorosis --- United States, 1988--1994 and 1999--2002
    Findings indicate that the dental caries status of permanent teeth has improved since the 1988-1994 survey. Despite this improvement, disparities remain for ethnic/racial minorities, low income populations, and those with lower education levels.
    Author(s): Eugenio D. Beltrán-Aguilar, et.al.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Journal citation: MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) Volume: 54 Issue: SS-3 Pages: 48
    Date: 08 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Women's Health Care in the United States: Selected Findings from the 2004 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Fact Sheet
    Examines: (1) Disparities in care among women by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. (2) Disparities in health care for women compared with men. and (3) Trends and state variation in women's health care over time.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 05 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Working Toward Our Goal: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
    Discusses health care concerns for communities of color.
    Author(s): Nathan Stinson
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Date: 08 / 2003
    Format: PDF

Journals

  • Journal of Rural Health
    Offers research of projects to improve rural health, statistics, and mathematical models. Provides summaries of recently published rural health research. Provides links to author, subject and abstract indexes.
    Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association

Organizations