US Government Sites

http://web.health.gov/healthypeople/ Official Web site for Healthy People 2010, the Federal initiative to reduce health disparities

http://www.omhrc.gov/omhhome.htm Office of Minority Health (Closing the Health Gap)

http://ncmhd.nih.gov/ National Center on Minority Health Disparities

http://hhs.gov/topics/minority.php  US Department of Health and Human Services – Topics in Minority Health Page

http://healthdisparities.nih.gov/index.php The National Institutes of Health: Addressing Health Disparities: The NIH Program of Action

http://www.cdc.gov/od/admh/index.htm Office of the Associate Director for Minority Health

http://www.cdc.gov/cvh/projects-disparities.htm National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of Cardiovascular Health: Projects for Eliminating  Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Health

http://plan.cancer.gov/public/disparities.htm National Cancer Institute’s plan for reducing health disparities in cancer, University Research Center Web Sites

CDC Health Disparities Selected Bibliography This list covers CDC publications from January 2000 to January 2005.

 

Institutional and Center Sites

VA Center for Minority Veterans The Center for Minority Veterans is part of the Office of the Secretary. The Center assists eligible veterans in their efforts to receive benefits and services from VA.

An Internet Guide to Racial Health Disparities from the Poverty and Race Research Action Council Web site.

http://www.healthdisparities.net/ Health Disparities Collaboratives: A national effort to improve health outcomes for all medically underserved people with chronic diseases, funded by the Bureau of Primary Health Care

The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project is an introduction to geocoding and using area-based socioeconomic measures with public health surveillance data.

Physicians for Human Rights Annotated Bibliography a comprehensive annotated bibliography of key articles in the peer-reviewed literature on racial and ethnic disparities in medical care

http://www.minority.unc.edu University of North Carolina Center for Minority Health

http://www.cmh.pitt.edu/home1.php Center for Minority Health based at the University of Pittsburgh

http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_race.php#Databases A subsection of a larger web site focusing on Maternal and Child Health.  This section provides resources for exploring racial disparities

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HUpapers/gender/ Web site containing papers have been prepared under the Global Health Equity Initiative Gender and Health Equity Project based at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

http://www.macses.ucsf.edu Web site for the Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health.  This Macarthur-funded research center’s mission is to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms by which socioeconomic factors affect the health of individuals and their communities

Researching Student Run Health Clinics  This site describes a collaborative research effort to understand the structure, operation, and impact of health care clinics run by medical students.  Because they typically provide health care to underserved communities, student-run health clinics are a potentially important component in reducing health disparities.

 

International Sites

http://www.ukhen.org.uk/ This UK site provides information on equity and inequality in health, aiming to provide comprehensive and well-organized links to relevant information and organizations

http://www.paho.org/ Web site from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).  An international public health agency working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

 

Cultural Competence Site

http://www.diversityrx.org A Web site promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities

 

NATIONAL DATA

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics

http://seer.cancer.gov/ The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States

NWHIDThe National Women's Health Indicators Database provides online access to county level health data for women and the entire population of the United States.

 

FUNDING RESOURCES

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/grants/grants1.htm Specifically for health disparities research around race and ethnicity

http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide More general information about funding opportunities

http://www.nidr.nih.gov/research/health_disp.asp Information about funding for health disparities research from the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research

http://www.nida.nih.gov/Funding/HDispGuide.php  Information about funding for health disparities research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

 

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov VA Health Services Research and Development

http://www.ahcpr.gov  Agency for Health Care Quality Research