Health Disparities Websites

General  /  Texas

General Health Disparities Websites

• American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Fetal & Infant Mortality Review Program

http://www.acog.org/departments/dept_notice.cfm?recno=10&bulletin=1636
The National Fetal & Infant Mortality Review Program (FIMR), website from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This document reviews the population based data about disparity in infant health outcomes, defines the FIMR process, describes the potential role of this method in addressing disparities in outcome, and provides specific examples of successful, new community actions developed by culturally diverse FIMR programs.

• American Medical Association, Eliminating Health Disparities

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7639.html
This website contains information on the AMA's activities to eliminate health disparities, research findings and recommendations, the proceedings from the 2005 Conference on Health Litercy & Health Disparities and the Summary of the 2005 Commission to end Health Disparities.

• American Public Health Association

http://www.apha.org/
The American Public Health Association website includes news, annual meeting information and proceedings, consumer health pages, and a database of health disparities projects and community programs.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) Office of Minority Health

http://www.cdc.gov/omh/default.htm

• CDC Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH 2010)

http://www.cdc.gov/reach/

• Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health

http://childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx

• Factline - Tracking Health in Underserved Communities

http://www.meharry.org/Fl/




• Health Disparities Collaborative

http://www.healthdisparities.net/hdc/html/home.aspx

• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Minority Health

http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/index.cfm

• Institute of Medicine

http://www.iom.edu/

• Knowledge Path: Infant Mortality

http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_infmort.html

• Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University

http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/index.html

• National Association of Community Health Centers

http://www.nachc.com/research/tx.asp

• National Cancer Institute, Cancer Health Disparities

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/disparities

• National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

http://ncmhd.nih.gov/

• Provider's Guide to Quality & Culture

http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English&ggroup=&mgroup=

• United Nations Population Fund

http://www.unfpa.org/index.htm

• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Closing the Health Gap

http://www.healthgap.omhrc.gov/index.htm

• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health

http://www.omhrc.gov/

• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center

http://mchb.hrsa.gov/mchirc/dataspeak/events/may_06b/

• World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health

http://www.who.int/social_determinants/en/

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Health Disparities Websites- Texas

• Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Research on Women with Disabilities

http://www.bcm.edu/crowd/?PMID=1331

• Texas A&M, Center for the Study of Health Disparities

http://cshd.tamu.edu/tamuCSHD.html

• Texas Department of State Health Services, Office for the Elimination of Health Disparities

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/oehd/default.shtm

 

• University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas Center for Health Disparities

http://www.hsc.unt.edu/HealthDisparities/

• University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio, Center for Health & Health Care Disparities

http://southtexas.uthscsa.edu/HealthDisparities/index.html

• University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health

http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/CRMH/

• University of Texas Medical Branch, CATCHUM Project

http://www.catchum.utmb.edu/index.htm

• University of Texas Medical Branch, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities

http://www.utmb.edu/cehd/programs/telehealth/index.html

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