Minority Health Resources
Underserved Populations
-- Resources for patients who have a low degree of health literacy, patients who have trouble paying for their medications and patients who are immigrants to the United States.
Women
-- Links to organizations serving women's health care needs.
African Americans
-- Factors contributing to poor health outcomes among African Americans include discrimination, cultural barriers, and lack of access to health care.
American Indians/Alaskan Natives
-- To be culturally competent, health programs must begin to define community, prevention, networking, collaboration, and healing as it relates to cultural understanding and awareness.
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders
-- Asian Americans have historically been overlooked due to the “myth of the model minority”: the erroneous notion that Asian Americans are passive, compliant, and without problems or needs. The effects of this myth have been the failure to take seriously the very real concerns of this population.
Hispanic/Latino
-- Health profiles of Hispanic and Latino Americans are unique: Puerto Ricans suffer disproportionately from asthma, HIV/AIDS, and infant mortality, while Mexican Americans suffer disproportionately from diabetes.
HHS Office of Minority Health
-- Contains profiles on African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders and Hispanics/Latinos. Also provides links to data and statistics on health, race and ethnicity.
NIH National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities-Programs
-- NIH’s mission of “uncovering new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone” lays the foundation for the overall goal of understanding the causes of health disparities and for developing effective interventions to eliminate these disparities.
The programs supported by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities are central to that effort.
Minority Health Project's Reports
-- From University of North Carolina School of Public Health at Chapel Hill's Minority Health Probject; has research, publications and documentaries on minority health and minority health disparities.
