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Ethnic Groups Health Resources

See also the Public Health Library Research Guide Ethnic Groups and Health.

Organizations and Agencies

Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)

"This national advocacy organization is dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts to improve the health and well-being of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander (AA,NHOPI) communities. A meta-resource site with links to general health status and specific disease conditions within these communities."

California Office of Multicultural Health

"The California Office of Multicultural Health is dedicated to reducing the gaps in health status among California's diverse populations."

Indian Health Service (IHS)

IHS, an agency of the US Public Health Service, "provides a comprehensive health services delivery system for American Indians and Alaska Natives with opportunity for maximum tribal involvement in developing and managing programs to meet their health needs." Several full text publications are available:

Indian Health Service Directory, March 2002

Regional Differences in Indian Health 2000-01 (Tables only)

Regional Differences in Indian Health 1998-99

Trends in Indian Health 1998-1999

National Alliance for Hispanic Health

"NAHH is the oldest and largest network of Hispanic health and human service providers, As the nation's action forum for Hispanic health and well-being, the programs of the Alliance:

• Inform and mobilize consumers;
• Support providers in the delivery of quality care;
• Improve the science base for accurate decision making;
• Promote appropriate use of technology; and,
• Promote philanthropy."

  The Hispanic Health Needs Assessment "provides Hispanic communities with tools to self-identify critical health issues and priorities, and it uses the Healthy People objectives to document current community health status and progress to goals."

Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care (RCCHC)

RCCHC is a national network of organizations that offer technical assistance and information on linguistic and cultural competence in health care. Their web site also has information on the legal issues surrounding cultural and linguistic competence.

U.S. DHHS. Office of Minority Health

"The mission of 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." The web site includes data and statistics, training tools and other resources in cultural competency, and more.

U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association

USMBHA focuses on information dissemination on border health issues and the creation of effective networks.

Publications and Databases

To search for journal articles on this topic, use the Online Indexes and Databases. To locate journals, use the Melvyl catalog, or the UC-eLinks Electronic Journals Search.

Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic Disparities in the United States (CDC: 2003)

"This Atlas provides an extensive series of national and state maps that show local disparities in stroke death rates for the five largest racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Substantial disparities in the health and economic burden of stroke among racial and ethnic populations have been documented, [as have] substantial geographic disparities in stroke mortality."

Bibliography of Asian Studies (1971-present)
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains records on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Coverage includes articles, monographs (until 1992), conference proceedings, anthologies, and book chapters. Users can search as well as browse by country/region, by subject, or by journal title.

California's Undocumented Latino Immigrants: A Report on Access to Health Care Services (May 1999)

Survey results from in-person interviews with 533 undocumented Latino immigrants living in the Fresno and Los Angeles counties. The report details their access to health care services, insurance status, health status, and economic circumstances. Adobe Acrobat is required for viewing the report.

Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin (Council of Economic Advisers for the President's Initiative on Race, 1998; PDF file)

This report comments on various social and economic factors (racial/ethnic composition of the population, foreign-born population, minority population by region, poverty rates for children, child vaccination, prevalence of smoking) of well-being by race and Hispanic origin. The data used to compile this reports is also provided.

Chicano Database
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

Use the Chicano Database to retrieve records for all types of materials in the areas of Mexican-American topics, and since 1992, materials on other Latino cultures--e.g., Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Subject coverage includes art, language, sociology, public policy, economics, history, literature, politics, and law. The database is produced by the Chicano Studies Library, University of California. Coverage includes 1967 - present.

CiNii (Citation Information by National Institute of Informatics)
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

A Japanese-language database service that enables searching of information in academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. The National Institute of Informatics has incorporated approximately 2.8 million full text articles (PDF) from 1,000 published academic journals as well as Research Bulletins of Japanese universities. All of the full text articles incorporated are available through CiNii along with bibliographical information on other academic papers.

Ethnic NewsWatch (1960 to present)
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

The Ethnic NewsWatch database contains news, culture and history from hundreds of publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Full text articles dating back to 1960 are available. New articles are added each month. Ethnic NewsWatch is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) (1970-present)
NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students.

Resource for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI indexes journals published throughout the western world.

Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (US Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 2005; pdf file)

This is the current list of the 562 federally recognized Indian tribes. Tribes are listed by their federally recognized name, for example the "Maidu" Indians are listed as the "Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California." Use the "Find" function to find a tribe by any part of their name, or by the state in which the tribe is located.

Multicultural Aspects of Breast Cancer Etiology (1430 Citations)

National Library of Medicine Current Bibliographies in Medicine 99-1 (March 1999)

Multicultural Health Evaluation publications

This is a series of reports on multicultural health evaluation from The California Endowment.

National Healthcare Disparities Report

This report tracks disparities in both quality of and access to health care in the United States for both the general population and for congressionally designated priority populations. The report presents, in chart format, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care in the general U.S. population and among priority populations. It focuses on four components of quality—effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness—and two components of access—facilitators and barriers to health care and health care utilization.

Native Health Databases

Developed by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center with funds made available by a contract with the Indian Health Service. The Native Health Research Database (1966 to the present) provides access to bibliographic information pertaining to health and medical issues of the American Indian and Alaska Native and Canadian First Nations populations. Basic and Advanced Search are available. The Native Health History Database covers 1652-1966. Best viewed with Internet Explorer.

Pew Hispanic Center Reports

"A"nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world". Statistical portrait of the Hispanic populations in 2005 based on the American Community Survey results. Demographics include age, education, nativity, fertility, income, living arrangements, occupation, industry, etc.">.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care

"This report examines health insurance coverage and access to physician services among African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians and Alaska Natives. By pooling national survey data over two years, information about particular minority subgroups is also provided." From the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups - African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics: A Report of the Surgeon General. (1998, updated 2000)

Understanding the Health Culture of Recent Immigrants to the United States: A Cross-Cultural Maternal Health Information Catalog

From the American Public Health Association, this catalog "analyzes the unique maternal health cultures of three main regions of the world from which immigrants to the U.S. frequently come in terms of:

1. relevant country-of-origin information that can be predictors of maternal health,
2. health status and risks of recent immigrant women associated with biological, cultural, and lifestyle susceptibility,
3. maternal health culture, including folk practices and health belief systems, and
4. culture's effect on the utilization of maternal health services in the U.S."

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Institute of Medicine, 2002)

"Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower quality of healthcare than non-minorities, even when access-related factors, such as patients' insurance status and income, are controlled." This report assesses sources of disparities in care and analyzes interventions to improve healthcare delivery.

U.S. Patterns of Mortality by County and Race: 1965-1994

Report with statistical data published in 1998 by the Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health.

Guides

Asian American Health

This guide, produced by the National Library of Medicine, includes information and resources on diseases, behavioral issues, complementary and alternative medicine, health organizations, as well as publications and links to government agencies.

American Indian Health

Another guide, produced by the National Library of Medicine, "is designed to bring together health and medical resources pertinent to the American Indian population including policies, consumer health information, and research. Links are provided here to an assortment of documents, Web sites, databases, and other resources," including information on environmental health and traditional healing.

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