TOPIC: Diversity, Disparities, and Promoting Health Equitably

The following items, along with the Quick Find on the topic of "Cultural Competence and Related Issues" (click here to see), represent only a sample of information; our intent is to provide an aid to get you started in further exploring the topic.
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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Center Briefs

• Diversity Competence for Psychological Practitioners: Eliminating Disparities in Psychological Practices

Guides to Practice

• Guides to Practice: Mental Health and School-Based Health Centers

Introductory Packet

• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections

Newsletter

• Diversity and Professional Competence in Schools… a mental health perspective (Spring '04)

Quickfinds

• Cultural Competence and Related Issues

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sexual Minority Students

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

• Advocates for Youth
• CDC: Addressing Health Disparities
• CDC: Eliminate Disparities in Mental Health
• CDC: Eliminating Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities
• CDC: Health Disparities
• Creating Health Equity Through Social Justice
• Cultural Competence and Health Care Disparities: Key Perspectives and Trends
• Cultural Effectiveness and Health Disparities Resources
• Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs
• Ethnic and Racial Diversity in SPH - ASPH Health Disparities
• Guidance for the National Healthcare Disparities Report
• Healthy People 2010. Mental Health and Mental Disorders
• Organizing to Address Minority Health Disparities: A Directory of State and Local Initiatives
• Perceptions of Community Pediatricians into the Health Needs of the Underserved
• Prioities for Research to take Forward the Health Equity Policy Agenda
• The Prevention Institute: Health Disparities
• Reducing Disparities Beginning in Early Childhood (2007). K Johnson & S. Theberge. National Center for Children in Poverty
• Reducing Health Disparities Through a Focus on Communities
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

• Cultural Competence for Evaluators: A Guide for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Practitioners Working with Ethnic/Racial Communities
• Cultural Competence Standards In Managed Mental Health Care Services: Four Underserved/Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups
• Culturally Competent Evaluation of Outcomes in Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health
• Drawing Strength from Diversity: Effective Services for Children, Youth and Families
• Primary Prevention and the Promotion of Mental Health in the ESL Classroom
• Psychological Interventions and Cultural Diversity
• Race, Ethnicity, and Access to Ambulatory Care among U.S. Adolescents

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Minority Health
• CDC: Office of Health Disparities
• CDC: Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities (OMHD)
• HDC: Health Resources and Services Administration
• National Adolescent Health Information Center
• National Initiative to Improve Adolescent and Young Adult Health
• The National Center for Cultural Competence
• NIMH: Stigma and Health Disparities Program (96-BHH)
• NIMH: Disparities in Mental Health Services Research Program (82-SEHD)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - The Office of Minority Health

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained through Libraries

• Disparities in primary care for vulnerable children: The influence of multiple risk factors. Stevens, G.D.; Seid, M.; Mistry, R.; & Halfon, N. (2006). Health Services Research, 41(2) pp. 507-531.
• Does disadvantage start at home? Racial and ethnic disparities in health-related early childhood home routines and safety practices. Flores, G.; Tomany-Korman, S.C.; & Olson, L. (2005). Archives of Pediatric Adolescence. 159, pp. 158-165.
• Family Structure, socioeconomic status, and access to health care for children. Heck, K.E. & Parker, J.D. (2002). Health Services Research, 37(1), pp. 173-186.
• Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: A lifecourse perspective. Maternal and Child Health Journal. Lu, M. c. & Halfon, N. (2003). 7(1), pp. 13-30.
• Understanding and reducing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. House, J.S. & Williams, D.R. (2000). In B.D.Smedley & S.L. Syme (Eds.), Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavorial Research (pp. 81-124).

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