Minorities
(Minorías)
On this page:
Tools
(Herramientas)
- Resource Persons Network
Provides technical and capacity-building assistance to community-based organizations and institutions on behalf of the OMHRC for the purpose of assisting local efforts to improve minority health.
Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of Minority Health
- GobiernoUSA.gov
GobiernoUSA.gov es el portal oficial en español del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos y ofrece información oficial y actualizada sobre programas y servicios gubernamentales a nivel federal, estatal y local acerca de una variedad de temas, incluyendo inmigración, beneficios federales, empleo, negocios, vivienda, educación, salud, nutrición y seguridad y mucho más.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. General Services Administration
- Minority Health Concerns
A list of links to resources on a variety of minority health issues.
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and Hispanic Worker Initiative
Provides a variety of resources regarding multilingual and multicultural strategies for serving job seekers and workers with limited English proficiency.
Sponsoring organization: Employment and Training Administration
- Civil Rights Division's Coordination and Review Section (en Espanol)
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Justice
- Organizing to Address Minority Health Disparities: A Directory of State and Local Initiatives
A detailed 90-page compilation of over 300 groups working to address the causes and solutions to the health disparities crisis.
Sponsoring organization: Poverty & Race Research Action Council
- Office of Minority Health Resource Center
An information service that provides publications, articles, and database searches on minority health topics. Can be contacted by phone at 1.800.444.6472, or by e-mail at info@omhrc.gov.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- HRSA Information Center
Provides publications, information, resources, and referrals about health care services for medically underserved individuals and populations.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Success Stories
(Historias de éxito)
- Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.
Funding
(Financiamiento)
- 2010 Minority Nurse Scholarship Program
Annual scholarship program to help outstanding students complete their studies leading to a BSN degree.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Feb 1, 2010
Sponsor: MinorityNurses.Com
- Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program
The program's purpose is to expand the pool of students of color interested in the field of health policy.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 4, 2009
Sponsor: Kaiser Family Foundation
- California Endowment Grant Programs
Grants to expand access to affordable, quality health care for the underserved and to improve the health status of all Californians.
Geographic Coverage: California
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: California Endowment
- Colonia Area Planning Fund
Provides assistance for the completion of planning activities that prepare colonia areas for water, sewer and housing improvements.
Geographic Coverage: Texas
Application Deadline:
Mar 27, 2011
Sponsor: Texas Office of Rural Community Affairs
- Health Care Disparities Grant Program
Grants to improve the quality of health care delivered to low-income and minority Americans, and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Commonwealth Fund
- Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Grants
Supports domestic health professional education.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
- Regional Community Health Grants Program
This program provides funding focused on reducing disparities in health care among racial and ethnic populations in eligible geographic areas.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Aetna Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Unsolicited Grants
Grants to address health care workforce, innovative health care solutions, and health care to vulnerable populations.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- St. Luke's Health Initiatives Community Grants
Grants to provide funding that strengthens the capacity of organizations and communities to improve access to care and better health for Arizona's most vulnerable populations.
Geographic Coverage: Arizona
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
- The Nathan Cummings Foundation Health Program Grants
Provides grants to improve health and well-being. Programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Publications
(Publicaciones)
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Blurred Borders: Transboundary Impacts and Solutions in the San Diego-Tijuana Region
Highlights the similarities, the inter-connections and the challenges that San Diego and Tijuana share, addressing the wide range of community based issues in the largest binational metropolitan area in North America.
Sponsoring organization: International Community Foundation
Date: 03 / 2004
Format: HTML
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Creating Infrastructure in the Border Colonias
Identifies how Cameron County, Texas utilizes State CDBG funds to combat the multiple infrastructure difficulties that exist in colonias
along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Author(s): Francisco Bejarano
Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
Journal citation: Rural Voices Volume: 11 Issue: 01 Pages: 12-13
Date: 2006
Format: PDF
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Disparities in Children's Health Care Quality: Selected Examples from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, 2008
This fact sheet discusses differences between groups in terms of relative rates, which is the ratio of the comparison group (e.g., Black) to a baseline group (e.g., White).
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 06 / 2009
Format: HTML
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Efforts to Improve Homeownership Opportunities for Hispanics: Case Studies of Three Market Areas
This report is part of a multi-phased research project undertaken by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to understand better the factors that influence Hispanic homeownership rates and the reasons why Hispanic rates are lower than those of non-Hispanic whites. Findings presented are based on interviews with key organizations located in three metropolitan areas: Orlando (FL), San Antonio (TX), and Washington DC.
Author(s): Alvaro Cortes, Erin Wilson, Christopher E. Herbert, Pedram Mahdavi
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Date: 03 / 2006
Format: PDF
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Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Public's Role in Working for Equality
Discusses several causes and solutions regarding health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.
Author(s): David Satcher
Date: 10 / 2006
Format: HTML
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Hired Farmworkers a Major Input For Some U.S. Farm Sectors
Summarizes what is known about farmworkers’ immigration status, housing, and other factors.
Author(s): William Kandel
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
Journal citation: Amber Waves Date: 04 / 2008
Format: HTML
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Homeownership Rate Differences Between Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites: Regional Variation at the County Level
Examines the 25 counties in each of the four Census Regions of the United States with the largest regional Hispanic population in 2000.
Author(s): George S. Masnick
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Date: 03 / 2006
Format: PDF
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Immigration Integration Working in Two Communities
Discusses the influx of Hispanic immigrants to Marshalltown, IA, and the border town of Eagle Pass, TX. Examines the impact on these communities particularly schools and healthcare facilities.
Author(s): Hope Hanson
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Journal citation: Rural Monitor Date: 06 / 2006
Format: HTML
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Improving Homeownership Opportunities for Hispanic Families: A Review of the Literature
Reviews the existing literature to examine what is known about the causes of the large gaps that exist between the homeownership rates of Hispanics and those of non-Hispanic whites as well as what is known about the best ways to narrow these gaps.
Author(s): Alvaro Cortes, Christopher E. Herbert, Erin Wilson, Elizabeth Clay
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Date: 03 / 2006
Format: PDF
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The Legality of Collecting and Disclosing Patient Race and Ethnicity Data
Analyzes whether the collection of patient data by race or ethnicity, as part of a program of quality improvement, violates the law.
Author(s): Sara Rosenbaum, Taylor Burke, Sonia W. Nath, Jennifer Santos, Dana Thomas
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 06 / 2006
Format: HTML
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Mujer Y Corazon: Community Health Workers and Their Organizations in Colonias on the US-Mexico Border An Exploratory Study
Describes and evaluates a Comprehensive Community Initiative operating in communities on the Texas-Mexico border. The outreach program involves Community Resource Centers and para-professional outreach workers (Promatoras), who work to connect health care to the community.
Author(s): Marlynn May, Ricardo Contreras
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Date: 09 / 2004
Format: Print
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National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005
Comprehensive national overview of disparities in health care. Covers health care quality and health care access issues. Includes a section on health disparities experienced in rural areas.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 12 / 2005
Format: PDF
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Proximity of Rural Black and Hispanic/Latino Communities to Physicians and Hospital Services
This brief reports the findings of a study of how the African American and Hispanic/
Latino composition of rural communities relates to local physician concentrations,
and relates to distances to hospitals offering various levels of services.
Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Robert Schwartz
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
Date: 05 / 2001
Format: PDF
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to and Quality of Health Care
Takes a critical look at the research evidence on racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
Author(s): José J. Escarce,
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 09 / 2007
Format: PDF
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Reducing Health Disparities in Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women
Discusses the disparities in health insurance coverage between citizen and immigrant children, which was large a decade ago and has grown
significantly larger.
Author(s): Leighton Ku
Sponsoring organization: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date: 04 / 2007
Format: PDF
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Southwest Border KIDS COUNT Pocket Guide: A Snapshot of Children Living on the Southwest Border
Presents the characteristics of the border population state-by-state and county-by-county with a focus on the children. Includes information on: Population and demographic characteristics, Health, Parental employment, Education, Language fluency, Foreign-born status and time of arrival, and Poverty rates.
Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
Date: 2005
Format: PDF
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A Strategic Framework for Improving Racial/Ethnic Minority Health and Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
Intended to help guide, organize and coordinate the systematic planning, implementation and evaluation of efforts within OMH, DHHS and across the nation to achieve better results relative to minority health improvements and health disparities reductions.
Date: 2006
Format: HTML
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Strategies for Improving Latino Healthcare in America: Report of The Latino Healthcare Taskforce
Provides an overview of Latinos in America. Reports on a number of healthcare strategies and recommendations for improving Latino healthcare along with supporting information.
Author(s): Glenn Melnick, Lois Green, et al.
Sponsoring organization: Latino Coalition
Date: 09 / 2006
Format: PDF
Organizations
(Organismos)
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Border Counties Coalition
A nonpartisan, consensus-based policy and technical forum founded to address challenges facing county governments located on the United States/Mexico Border.
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CDC Office of Minority and Women's Health
Works to assure that the burden and impact of infectious diseases among racial and ethnic minorities and women is acknowledged and addressed through research, surveillance, education, training, and program development. Part of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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CDC's Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities
Aims to accelerate CDC’s health impact in the U.S population and to eliminate health disparities for vulnerable populations as defined by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, gender, age, disability status, risk status related to sex and gender, and among other populations identified to be at-risk for health disparities.
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Center for Health Equality
Works towards the reduction and elimination of minority health disparities.
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Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
Works to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their wages and working conditions, labor and immigration policy, health and safety, and access to justice.
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HHS Office of Minority Health
Serves as a national resource and referral service on minority health issues. Part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
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MinorityNurses.Com
Online resource for the diversified nursing community. Provides resources and information pertaining to education, career development and minority health for the growing population of minority nurses in America.
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National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The mission is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and eliminate health disparities. NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities.
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National Healthy Start Association
Promotes the development of community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of infant mortality, low birthweight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.
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Oficina de Salud para las Minorías
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Pew Hispanic Center
A nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation.
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