Asian American and Pacific Islander Children and Mental Health

Asian American and Pacific Islander Children and Mental Health

Images of America Latinos in Milwaukee

In fact, more than 100,000 Latinos live in Milwaukee, and the continued growth of this community is visible in every segment of the city.

Latino Patient A Cultural Guide for Health Care Providers

Latinos are dramatically changing the demographic profile of the United States. Developing a strong command of the Spanish language is not a realistic goal for most health care providers wishing to establish a rapport with their Latino patients.

African American Voices: African American Health Educators Speak Out

African American Voices: African American Health Educators Speak Out

An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race Beginnin

An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race Beginnin

Asian Voices Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out

Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out

Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action.

Challenges and Success in Reducing Health Disparities

Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Disparities to increase the visibility of racial and ethnic health disparities as a national problem.

Confronting Critical Health Issues of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

critically examines and reviews the distribution of factors associated with health problems in specific Asian and Pacific Islander populations. Expert contributors address the top priority health problems and issues facing these groups including infectious diseases, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, AIDS//HIV, substance abuse, and mental health.

Cultural Competence Primer

The National Medical Association (NMA) has identified chronic kidney disease (CKD) among African Americans as a serious health problem in the United States. Racial and ethnic disparities have been globally documented on the prevalence, incidence, and treatment of CKD.

Depression and Other Mental Health Disorders in African Americans

Approximately eight in ten Americans who are treated for depression will enter into a state of recovery.

Dying in the City of the Blues

This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an “invisible” malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and suffering.

Economic Justice for All?

In the months before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. had expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic inequality. What has happened to Dr. King’s vision of economic justice? In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander—experts in civil rights advocacy and litigation—to discuss just how far the U.S. has come as a country, why poor and working-class Americans have fallen farther behind economically, and what the nation must do to fulfill Martin Luther King’s vision. An essay that assesses the grave societal implications of America’s vast income inequality ends the program.

End Stage Renal Disease in the African American Community

The National Medical Association has identified end stage renal disease (ESRD), or kidney failure, as a serious national health problem posing a dire and disparate health burden for the African American community.

Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children

Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children explores the ethical issues posed when conducting research designed to identify, understand, or ameliorate housing-related health hazards among children.

Examining Tuskegee The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

The forty-year "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study has become the American metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance.

Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care, evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality, high-value care in an equitable manner is essential.

Health and Social Issues of Native American Women

Health and Social Issues of Native American Women is the first book that specifically explores and discusses health and related social issues within the world of Native American women, providing strong historical and cultural perspectives as well as other contextual information that is often missing or misrepresented in other works about Native American women.

Health Literacy A Prescription to End Confusion

To maintain their own health and the health of their families and communities, consumers rely heavily on the health information that is available to them. This information is at the core of the partnerships that patients and their families forge with today s complex modern health systems.

Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations: A Handbook for Practitioners and Students

Numerous advances and improvements in theory and practice in health promotion and disease prevention (HPDP) are presented.

Hispanic Voices Hispanic Health Educators Speak

Prominent educators explore the pressing cultural and health needs of Hispanics in this timely and fascinating text. Discussions on poverty and children, risks of immigration, HIV/AIDS, stress and depression, the homeless, migrant farm workers, racism, lifestyles, and community/spiritual values depict the complexity of problems affecting the health of Hispanics everywhere. One of a four book series that explores the implications of cultural factors in the delivery of health care to particular communities.

How Cancer Crossed the Color Line

In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race.

Images in America Jewish Milwaukee

The Jewish community has a distinguished heritage in Milwaukee, and Jewish immigrants were an integral part of the pioneer fabric of the area. The 1840s saw the first large influx of Jews to Wisconsin, primarily to urban Milwaukee.

Images of America German Milwaukee

German immigrants began arriving to Milwaukee in the 1830s. By 1859, over one-third of the city was German. They opened schools and churches, started businesses, ran for office, and introduced professional German theater, art, and music to the city.

Images of America Milwaukee’s Bronzeville 1900-1950

With the migration of African American sharecroppers to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, the African American population of Milwaukee grew from fewer than 1,000 in 1900 to nearly 22,000 by 1950.

Increasing Awareness and Treatment of Lupus in Communities of Color

African-Americans are three times more likely to develop systemic lupus erythematosus than are whites. Additionally, African-Americans endure more severe symptoms, such as lupus nephritis. African-American women in particular suffer tremendously from the disease.

Indian Health Service HIV/AIDS Prevention

Although they represent less than 1 percent of all HIV/AIDS reported cases, American Indians and Alaska Natives had the third highest rate of HIV/AIDS diagnosis in the United States after blacks and Hispanics in 2005.

Leading Health Indicators For Healthy People 2020

For the past three decades, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over each 10-year span.

Medical Apartheid The Dark History of Medical Experimentation

This groundbreaking study documents that the infamous Tuskegee experiments, in which black syphilitic men were studied but not treated, was simply the most publicized in a long, and continuing, history of the American medical establishment using African-Americans as unwitting or unwilling human guinea pigs.

Native American Elder Health Issues

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper.

Participatory Community Research Theories and Methods in Action

Participatory Community Research addresses the gap between scientific knowledge and the practice of community based research methods. Unlike the traditional approaches to research in which researchers generate the ideas for projects, define the methods, and interpret the outcomes, the approaches of participatory research empower community populations to shape the research agenda.

Race Ethnicity Language Data Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data.

Race, Ethnicity, and Health

A monumental compendium on one of the most crucial topics confronting those in public health and health policy, Race, Ethnicity, and Health brings together the best peer reviewed research literature from the leading scholars and faculty in this growing field.

Racism in Medicine and Health Parity for African Americans

Shattering the Silence The Case for Minority Faculty

Shattering the Silences cuts through the rhetoric of the current Culture Wars by telling the stories of eight pioneering scholars - African American, Latino, Native American and Asian American.

State and Local Policy Initiatives to Reduce Health Disparities

Although efforts to reduce health disparities receive attention at the national level, information on the successes of state and local efforts are often not heard. On May 11, 2009, the Institute of Medicine held a public workshop to discuss the role of state and local policy initiatives to reduce health disparities.

The Business of Poverty/Facing Up to the Economy

Despite many ominous portents in the US economy, officials have been hesitant to say the U.S. is in a recession, as the FINANCIAL TIMES recently reported in their series, "The Big Freeze" The US economy remains in limbo: neither pulling away from nor succumbing to pressure from the credit squeeze, falling house values and high oil prices. With only one quarter of negative growth — the final one of 2007 — the jury is still out on whether the US has had or will have a recession. Ordinary Americans, though, are feeling the squeeze. Bob Herbert, of the NEW YORK TIMES, and Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, join Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL to discuss the U.S. economy and the economic hardships facing the nation's underprivileged and, increasingly, it's once-secure middle class.

The Effective Management of Asthma in the African-American Community

The National Medical Association (NMA)—the oldest and largest professional organization of African-American physicians—has launched a national asthma initiative. Asthma affects African Americans disproportionately.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine.

The State of Black America 2007 Portrait of the Black Male

According to the 2007 National Urban League Equality Index, although many black men are doing well, glaring economic and other gaps continue to exist between them and their white counterparts. Because of its devastating and far-reaching ramifications, the status of the black male is the most serious economic and civil rights challenge we face today.

The State of Black America 2009 Message to the President

At the dawn of Barack Obama s historic presidency, The State of Black America 2009 examines the critical challenges such as unemployment, home foreclosures, education and health care reform his new administration must address.

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socio-economic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In "Unequal Treatment", a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment.