Internet Resources on Healthcare Disparities

• The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
  • http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/hus/2010/2010.htm
• Congressionally mandated annual report on health care disparities from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • http://www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov/disparitiesreport/browse/browse.aspx.
• Health data from the Department of Health and Human Services
  • http://www.hhs-stat.net/
• Freeman HP. Poverty, Culture, and Social Injustice: Determinants of Cancer Disparities
  • http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/reprint/54/2/72
• Multicultural Health Best Practices Overview. Includes the Kleinman questions
  • http://www.diversityrx.org/best/
• Women’s Health Care in the United States. Selected Findings from the 2004 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
  • http://www.ahrq.gov
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Disparities Digest:
  • http://www.rwjf.org/pr/topic.jsp?topicid=1180
• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • http://www.aap.org/commpeds/resources/cult_effectiveness.html
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr03/nhdrsum03.htm
• http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1702521

Journal Articles

• Bass-Haugen, J.D. (2009). Health disparities:
  • Examination of evidence relevant for occupational therapy. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63, 24-34.
• Ford, K, Waring, L, & Boggis, T. (2007). Living on the edge.
  • The hidden voices of health disparities. OT Practice, 12(5), 17-22.