LibGuides at the CDU Health Sciences Library: Health Disparities: 4. Disparities in Selected Health Conditions

Mental Health

A Sociocultural Framework for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Disparities by Margarita Alegria; Bernice A. Pescosolido; Glorisa Canino
Chapter 55.7 in Benjamin J. Sadock, Virgina A. Sadock, and Pedro Ruiz, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 9th ed., Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2009.

Heart Health and Conditions
This site, from Close the Gap : Health Equity for Life, has sections on women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and young athletes.
Bridging the Gap : CVD Health Disparities
This fact sheet from the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association highlights differences in risk factors, outcomes and care among groups in the population.

Disparities and Inequalities in Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes
This issue brief from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials provides data, but also examines some of the factors leading to the disparities and their societal.

Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
An agency of the National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health
Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening
This page from the Susan G. Komen Foundation examines the causes and effects of different rates of mammography utilization.

Health Disparities in Cancer by Harold P. Freeman
Chapter 179 of DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer : Principles and Practice of Oncology, 9th ed., Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2011.
The Health Implications of Disparities in Cancer and Pain Care : Unequal Burdens and Unheard Voices by Carmen R. Green
Chapter 79 in Honorio Benzon; James P. Rathmell; Christopher L. Wu; Dennis C. Turk; Charles E. Argoff; Robert W. Hurley, Practical Management of Pain, 5th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2014.

Racial disparities and asthma prevalence and morbidity in the USA by Rebecca S. Grucalla; Adnan Custovic; Erika von Mutius
Scroll down in chapter 4 in Stephen T. Holgate; Martin K. Church; Fernando D. Martinez; David H. Broide, Allergy. 4th ed., Elsevier, 2012.

Fact Sheet: Health Disparities in Diabetes
Highlights relating to diabetes from the CDC's Health Disparities and Inequalities Report.

Impact of Ethnic and Socioeconomic Factors on Diabetes-Related Health And Management by Arleen F. Brown; Andrew J. Karter; Dean Schillinger.
Chapter 14 in K. M. Venkat Narayan (Editor); Desmond Williams; Edward W. Gregg; Catherine C. Cowie, Diabetes Public Health : From Data to Policy. Oxford University Press, 2011.

A Closer Look at African American Men and High Blood Pressure Control
This report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examines the disease burden of hypertension and presents psychosocial factors which may account for elevated levels.

Health Disparities in Nephrology by Yoshio N. Hall
Chapter 83 in Alan S. L. Yu; Karl Skorecki; Glenn M. Chertow; Philip A. Marsden; Maarten W. Taal; Valerie Luyckx Brenner and Rectors's the Kidney, 11th ed, Elsevier, 2020.