Health Action 2007 Tool Kit: Minority Health

• General

• Immigrants 

General

Chapter 10: Disparities (Alliance for Health Reform)

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

Key Themes and Highlights from the National Healthcare Disparities Report (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

Health Affairs: Racial & Ethnic Disparities Issue (Health Affairs)

Health Care Disconnect: Gaps in Coverage and Care for Minority Adults (The Commonwealth Fund)

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Special Issue: Comparative Perspectives on Health Disparities (The Commonwealth Fund)

Health Care and Opportunity (The Opportunity Agenda)

Language Barriers to Health Care in the United States (The New England Journal of Medicine)

Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results from a National Survey (Health Research and Educational Trust, American Hospital Association, and the National Health Law Program)

Doctoring across the Language Divide: Trained Medical Interpreters Can Be the Key to Communication between Physicians and Patients (Health Affairs)

Americans’ Views of Disparities in Health Care (The Harvard School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and ICR/International Communications Research)

Improve Public Programs, Improve Minority Health (Families USA)

Taking Cultural Competency from Theory to Action (The Commonwealth Fund)

Immigrants

Immigrants and the U.S. Health Care System (California Immigrant Welfare Collaborative)

The Role of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage for Immigrants: A Primer (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and National Council of LaRaza)

Stretching the Safety Net to Serve Undocumented Immigrants: Community Responses to Health Needs (Center for Studying Health System Change)

Health Coverage and Access to Care for Hispanics in “New Growth Communities” and “Major Hispanic Centers” (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured)

New Medicaid Regulations Discriminate against U.S.- Born Children of Immigrants (Families USA)

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