LibGuides at the CDU Health Sciences Library: Health Disparities: 3. Groups Vulnerable to Health Disparities

Ethnic Health Disparities Ebooks

Ethnicity, Health and Health Care : Understanding Diversity, Tracking Disadvantage by Waqar I. U. Ahmad; Hannah Bradby
Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Inclusion : The Politics of Difference in Medical Research by Steven Epstein
University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Issues in Health and Health Care Related to Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012.
Mapping Race : Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research by Laura E. Gómez, Nancy Lopez
Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Precarious Prescriptions by Green, Laurie B., editor
University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Race, Ethnicity, and Health : A Public Health Reader by Thomas A. LaVeist; Lydia A. Isaac
2nd ed., Jossey-Bass, 2013.
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data : Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement by Cheryl Ulmer; Bernadette McFadden; David R. Nerenz
National Academies Press,
Racial Prescriptions by Jonathan Xavier Inda
Ashgate, 2014.
Seeing Patients by Augustus A. White; David Chanoff
Call Number: W 84 AA1 W582s 2011
Harvard University Press, 2011
Unequal Treatment : Confroning Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care by Brian D. Smedley; Adrienne Y. Stith Alan R. Nelson
Call Number: WA 300 U515 2003
National Academies Press, 2002.
Uncertain Suffering : Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease by Carolyn Moxley Rouse
Call Number: WH 170 R863u 2009
University of California Press, 2009.

CDC Health Disparities & Inequalities Report (CHDIR)
Details the disproportionate burden of preventable disease, death, and disability in racial and ethnic minority populations and provides health statistics information as it relates to specific demographics.
EthnoMed
Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues, and other related issues pertinent to recent immigrants to the US.
MacArthur Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health
A multi-disciplinary collaboration organized around an integrated conceptual model of the environmental and psychosocial pathways by which socioeconomic status alters the performance of biological systems.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Disparities Page
Provides news, perspective, research, analysis, and multimedia resources related to health disparities
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
The Maternal Child Health Digital Library at Georgetown has put together this extensive collection of resources on health disparities. Find documents and links out to other resources.
Health Disparities Page on MedlinePlus
Links to statistics, journal articles, and other reports. From the US National Library of Medicine.

African American Health Disparities

African American Bioethics by Edmund D. Pellegrino
Georgetown University Press, 2007.
Black and Blue : The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
University of California Press, 2012.
Social Determinants of Health among African-American Men by Henrie M. Treadwell; Clare Xanthos; Kisha B. Holden
2nd ed., Jossey-Bass, 2013

African American Health
Links to health resources and issues that face the African American population.
African American Populations
Highlights health statistics related to African American populations.

Asian American Health Disparities

Asian American Communities and Health by Chau Trinh-Shevrin; Nadia Shilpi Islam; Mariano Jose Rey.
Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Asian American Health
Links to health resources and issues that face the Asian American population.
Asian American Populations
Highlights health statistics related to Asian and Pacific Islander populations.
Risk Factors of Suicide and Depression among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth: A Systematic Literature Review.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2015; 26 (2 0): 191-237.
Low health literacy and cancer screening among Chinese Americans in California: a cross-sectional analysis.
BMJ Open. 2015; 5(1): e006104.

Gender Health Disparities

Gender, Women and Primary Health Care Renewal by World Health Organization Staff
World Health Organization, 2010.
Reproducing Race : An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization by Khiara M. Bridges
Call Number: WA 310 B643 2011
University of California Press, 2011.
Syndemic Suffering : Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women by Emily Mendenhall
Left Coast Press, 2012.

How Sex and Gender Influence Health and Disease
From the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health

LGBTQ Health Disparities

The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People by Medicine Institute Staff
National Academies Press, 2011.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging by Douglas C. Kimmel; Tara Rose; Steven David.
Columbia University Press, 2006.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Health
Links to health resources and issues that face the LGBT population.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
Highlights issues affecting the LGBT community and efforts to eliminate health disparities.
Introduction to the Special Section on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health Disparities: Where We Are and Where We're Going
Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2014; 47(1): 1 - 4.
Health disparities among lesbian, gay, and bisexual older adults: results from a population-based study.
American Journal of Public Health. 2013; 103(10): 1802-1809.

Health Disparities and Age

Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life by Norman B. Anderson; Randy A. Bulatao; Barney Cohen.
National Academies Press, 2004.
Vulnerable Older Adults by Patricia Burbank
Springer, 2006.

Older Adult Health
Links to health resources and issues that face senior and aged populations of the U.S.

Hispanic American Health Disparities

At Risk: Latino Children's Health by Rafael Perez-Escamilla; Hugo Melgar-Quinonez.
Arte Publico Press, 2011.
Chicana and Chicano Mental Health by Yvette G. Flores
University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Making the Mexican Diabetic by Michael Montoya
University of California Press, 2011.

Hispanic American Health
Links to health resources and issues that face the Hispanic American population.
Hispanic or Latino Populations
Provides health statistics related to the Hispanic American population
National Alliance for Hispanic Health
Premier science-based nonprofit organization that focuses on improving the health and well-being of Hispanics.
Addressing health disparities in Hispanic breast cancer: accurate and inexpensive sequencing of BRCA1 and BRCA2
Gigascience. 2015. 4: 50.

Native American Health Disparities

American Indian Health by Everett R. Rhoades
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Historical Trauma, Stress, and Diabetes: A Modern Model among the Eastern Band of Cherokees
Chapter 4 in Lisa J. Lefler, Under the Rattlesnake :
Cherokee Health and Resiliency University of Alabama Press, 2009.

Native American Health
Links to health resources and issues that face the African American population.
American Indian/Alaska Native Health Disparities
Provides links to resources regarding Native American health disparities
American-Indian diabetes mortality in the Great Plains Region 2002–2010
BMJ Open. 2015; 3(1): e000070.
Cancer Disparities Among Alaska Native People, 1970–2011
Preventing Chronic Disease. 2014; 11: e221.

Socioeconomic Health Disparities

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data : : A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation by Eddy Van Doorslaer; Adam Wagstaff; Magnus Lindelow; Owen O'Donnell
World Bank, 2008.
Attacking Inequality in the Health Sector: A Synthesis of Evidence and Tools of by Yazbeck, Abdo S.
World Bank, 2009.
Health and Wealth Disparities in the United States by Anupam B. Jena; Tomas J Philipson; Eric C. Sun
AEP Press, 2010.
Public Health and Social Justice : A Public Health Reader by Martin Donohoe
Jossey-Bass, 2013.
Rural Populations and Health : Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions by Richard A. Crosby; Robin C. Vanderpool; Monica L. Wendel; Baretta R. Casey
Jossey-Bass, 2012.
The Safety-Net Health Care System by Gunnar Robert Almgren; Taryn Lindhorst
Springer Publishing Company, 2012.
Social Injustice and Public Health by Barry S. Levy (Editor); Victor W. Sidel (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2006.
Toward Equity in Health : A New Global Approach to Health Disparities by Barbara C. Wallace
Springer Publishing Company, 2008.
Uninsured in America by Susan Starr Sered; Rushika Fernandopulle
University of California Press, 2005.
Health and Inequality by Owen O'Donnell; Pedro Rosa Dias;
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013.

Diseases Associated with Health Disparities

Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis by David Spero
New Society Publishers, 2006.
Uncertain Suffering : Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease by Carolyn Moxley Rouse
Call Number: WH 170 R863u 2009
University of California Press, 2009.

History of Health Disparities

American Health Dilemma, Volume 1 : The Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race, Beginnings to 1900 by Byrd, W. Michael Clayton, Linda A.
Routledge, 2000.
Body and Soul : The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Deluxe Jim Crow by Karen Kruse Thomas
University of Georgia Press, 2011.
Health Rights Are Civil Rights : Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1976 by Jenna M. Loyd
University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired by Susan Smith
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

Health Disparities Ebook Chapters

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care by Joseph R. Betancourt; Alexander R. Green
Chapter 7 in: J. Larry Jameson; Dan L. Longo; Stephen L. Hauser; Dennis L. Kasper; Joseph Loscalzo; Anthony S. Faucil. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2018.
Health Disparities by Leonard E. Egede; Marvella E. Ford; Joni L. Strom Williams
Chapter 6 in Raymond Greenberg; Stephen Daniels; W. Flanders; John Eley; John Boring, Medical Epidemiology : Population Health and Effective Health Care, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill,
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.
Health Care Disparities and Diversity in Emergency Medicine by Lisa Moreno-Walton and Christian Arbelaez
Chapter 217 in Jeffrey G. Adams, Emergency Medicine : Clinical Essentials, 2nd ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2013.