The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gillings School of Global Public Health (link)

   
 Your guide to minority health-related activities
at UNC-CH and elsewhere 

16th Annual Summer Public Health Research
Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health

Resources

"Understanding Health Reform: A community guide for African Americans", Daniel E. Dawes, Nicole C. Jarrett. Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, October 2010 (Link)

President Obama speaks on health care reform right before the Videoconference (Link)

Health disparities: a case for closing the gap, by US DHHS (Link) (HealthReform.gov home)

* Ensuring that health care reform will meet the needs of minority communities and eliminate health disparities, A Recommendation Report from the HHS Advisory Committee on Minority Health (ACMH), July 2009 (Link)

* Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Advancing Health Equity for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Populations, by Dennis P. Andrulis, Nadia J. Siddiqui, Jonathan Purtle, Lisa Duchon, July 2010 (Link) (Press release) (Webinar) (Health Policy Institute)

Race, Ethnicity & Health Care Reform: Achieving Equity in Our Lifetime, by Dennis P. Andrulis, Nadia J. Siddiqui, Jonathan Purtle, Lisa Duchon, December 2009 (Link)

Summary of New Health Reform Law (From the Kaiser Family Foundation Focus on Health Reform) (Link)

* Moving toward Health Equity: Health Reform Creates a Foundation for Eliminating Disparities, by Families USA Minority Health Initiatives Issue Brief, May 2010 (Link)

What Will Happen Under Health Reform - And What's Next?, The Commonwealth Fund, Columbia Journalism Review, May 2010 supplement. (Link)

* The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States, by Thomas A. LaVeist, Darrell J. Gaskin, Patrick Richard. Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, September 2009 (Link)

Related resource: Is Health Care Entitlement a Solution to the Problem of Health Disparities for American Indians/Alaska Natives?, by Jennie Joe, 10th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health, 2004 (slides)

 
 

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