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- Up one level
- APHA 2016 panel Reframing Health Equity
Presented November 2, 2016 at APHA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Tracy Orleans, moderator
- *Sutton, Valentine, Jenkins - Our Communities Our Sexual Health
Our Communities Our Sexual Health: Awareness and Prevention for African Americans Madeline Y. Sutton, Jo A. Valentine, William C. Jenkins APHA Press, 2015 "Though it hardly seems that far in the past, the HIV/AIDS epidemic first gripped the nation more than 30 years ago. In the time since, communities have worked together to fight the diseases’ deadly impacts. "It’s that history that inspired the stories in “Our Communities Our Sexual Health: Awareness and Prevention for African Americans.” Edited by Madeline Sutton, Jo A. Valentine and William C. Jenkins, the book explores the struggles and successes in the black community, from public health workers and advocates to lay people."
- California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
See their Strategic Plan to Reduce Mental Health Disparities.
- CDC MMWR Supplements Vol. 65, Supplement, No. 1; February 12, 2016
Interventions demonstrated to reduce health disparities
- Equity Diversity Inclusion - Action Toolkit for Organizations
Tolulope Oyetunde, MS, MPH; Adrianna Boulin, MPH; Jeanie Holt, MS, MPH. APHA, 2020.
This toolkit serves as an encouraging first step for any organization ready to implement E-D-I practices. Using this toolkit, board and staff members can assess their current practices and find resources to ensure continued growth in diversity and equity.
- Gregory Wagner - Editorial: The Inexcusable Persistence of Silicosis
Editorial: The Inexcusable Persistence of Silicosis
Wagner, Gregory R.
American Journal of Public Health 1995 (Oct);85(10:1346-1347
ABSTRACT
The article presents the author's review of the prevalence of silicosis, based on an analysis of health and exposure data from a cohort of underground gold miners provided by Steenland and Brown in this issue of the journal. Despite pronouncement that silicosis, a fatal lung disease resulting from the inhalation of respirable particles of crystalline quartz, has been eliminated in the 1930 and 1940, it continues to persist. Study authors estimate a lifetime risk of silicosis to be 35% to 47% for someone exposed at the standard set by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration."
- Politics and voting
Political power underlies government policy, with fundamental impacts on health equity
- Racism
- Sean Clouston et al. - Social inequalities in suicide: the role of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Social Inequalities in Suicide: The Role of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Sean A. P. Clouston, Marcie S. Rubin, Cynthia G. Colen, Bruce G. Link
Am J Epidemiol 2014;180(7):696-704
"We aimed to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and suicide associated with the introduction and diffusion of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Negative binomial regression was used to estimate county-level suicide rates among persons aged 25 years or older using death certificate data collated by the National Center for Health Statistics from 1968 to 2009; SES was measured using the decennial US Census. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were used to measure SSRI use. Once SSRIs became available in 1988, a 1% increase in SSRI usage was associated with a 0.5% lower suicide rate. Prior to the introduction of SSRIs, SES was not related to suicide. However, with each 1% increase in SSRI use, a 1–standard deviation (SD) higher SES was associated with a 0.6% lower suicide rate. In 2009, persons living in counties with SES 1 SD above the national average were 13.6% less likely to commit suicide than those living in counties with SES 1 SD below the national average—a difference of 1.9/100,000 adults aged ≥25 years. Higher SSRI use was associated with lower suicide rates among US residents aged ≥25 years; however, SES inequalities modified the association between SSRI use and suicide."
- Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities — Selected CDC-Sponsored Interventions, United States, 2014
MMWR Supplements: Current Volume (2014)
April 18, 2014 / Vol. 63 / Supplement / No. 1 / Pg. 1 - 48
- The Health Opportunity and Equity (HOPE) Initiative
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, HOPE tracks 28 indicators at national and state levels. Indicators span the life course, including health outcomes and indicators related to opportunity such as socioeconomic factors, the physical and social environment, and access to health care at the state and national level. Gaps in health do not develop by chance or by choice. We chose these measures because they reflect the systems and policies that affect health equity. Data are also provided by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
- The intergenerational transmission of inequality: Maternal disadvantage and health at birth
The intergenerational transmission of inequality: Maternal disadvantage and health at birth. Anna Aizer, Janet Currie. Science 23 May 2014;344:856-861 (From special issue on inequality: http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/inequality/ )
- Vital Signs: Racial Disparities in Age-Specific Mortality Among Blacks or African Americans — United States, 1999–2015
CDC MMWR Early Release / May 2, 2017 / 66. Timothy J. Cunningham, Janet B. Croft, Yong Liu, Hua Lu, Paul I. Eke, Wayne H. Giles During 1999–2015, age-adjusted death rates decreased significantly in both populations, with rates declining more sharply among blacks for most leading causes of death. Thus, the disparity gap in all-cause mortality rates narrowed from 33% in 1999 to 16% in 2015.