Articles

Articles: General

• Killing Affirmative Action
  >> Killing Affirmative Action
• There’s More Than One Way to Diversity
  >> by Joe Kline of TIME

Disparities: Background

• Latino Outlook: Good Health, Uncertain Prognosis
  >> Annual Review of Public Health Vol. 15: 39-67
• Segregation, poverty, and empowerment: health consequences for African Americans.
  >> Milbank Q. 1993;71(1):41-64
• Shades of difference: theoretical underpinnings of the medical controversy on black/white differences in the United States, 1830-1870.
  >> Int J Health Serv. 1987;17(2):259-78
• Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care
  >> American Journal of Public Health, Vol 87, Issue 11 1773-1778

Disparites: Conceptual Issues

• Beyond dummy variables and sample selection: what health services researchers ought to know about race as a variable.
  >> Health Serv Res, 1994
• Latino terminology: conceptual bases for standardized terminology
  >> American Journal of Public Health, Vol 77, Issue 1 61-68
• The Bell Curve: On Race, Social Class, and Epidemiologic Research
  >> Am. J. Epidemiol. Muntaner et al. 144 (6): 531.

Disparities: Facts

• Disparities in Health Care by Race, Ethnicity, and Language Among the Insured: Findings From a National Sample.
  >> Medical Care. 40(1):52-59, January 2002.
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Medical Care
  >> Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 57, No. suppl 1, 108-145 (2000)

Disparities: Research

• Disparities in the Emergency Department Evaluation of Chest Pain Patients
  >> Pezzin LE, Keyl PM, Green GB. Disparities in the emergency department evaluation of chest pain patients. Acad Emerg Med 2007; 14:149-156.
• Disparities in the Utilization of High-Volume Hospitals for Complex Surgery
  >> JAMA. 2006;296:1973-1980
• Enhancing the Quality of Life of Dementia Caregivers from Different Ethnic or Racial Groups
  >> Ann Int Med 21 November 2006 | Volume 145 Issue 10 | Pages 727-738
• Relationship Between Quality of Care and Racial Disparities in Medicare Health Plans
  >> JAMA. 2006;296:1998-2004