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Health and Healthcare Disparities Portal

This portal provides a selected collection of Web resources pertaining to health and healthcare disparities. Each entry includes a brief description and additional topics.

Electronic Books

Electronic books are available within many of the Library’s electronic resource collections. This is a selected list of electronic books from multiple sources, and additional electronic books on health and healthcare disparities may be found by searching the Library’s eBooks on EBSCOhost collection.

   African American Child: Development and Challenges, 2007 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]
   Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary, 2008 (National Academies Press) [Electronic Book]
   Demography of Health and Health Care, 2nd ed., 2002 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]
   Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs, 2004 [Electronic Book]
   Handbook of Chicana/o Psychology and Mental Health, 2004 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]
   Health and Health Care As Social Problems, 2003 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]
   Researching Cultural Differences in Health, 2002 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]
   Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, 2003 (National Academies Press) [Electronic Book]

Web Resources

   Center for Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities
   Health Disparities & the Body Politic [Electronic Book]
   Health Disparities Collaboratives
   Health Disparities Research and Diversity Resource Center
   Kaiser Health Disparities Report
   Measuring Healthcare Quality - AHRQ
   Minority Health Project
   National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
   Office of Minority Health
   Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
   Out of the Shadows: A Portrait of Women and Girls in Dallas County

Electronic Journals

Print Resources

Below is a selected list of print books from the Library’s collection. The UT Southwestern Library uses the National Library of Medicine Classification scheme for books and audiovisuals. Under this system of organization, print resources related to health and healthcare disparities may be found under the following call numbers:

  • W 76: Health services accessibility
  • WA 300: Health status disparities
  • WA 84, WA 380, WA 390, WA 395: Healthcare disparities

Assessing Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Health
Sana Loue
WA 300 L886A
Is it available? Library Catalog

Disparities and Gender Gaps in Women's Health, 1996: Health Insurance, Access to Care, Health Status
Barbara L. Kass
WA 900 AA1 K19
Is it available? Library Catalog

Gender, Ethnicity, and Health Research
Sana Loue
WA 20.5 L886
Is it available? Library Catalog

Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation
David Barton Smith
WA 300 S645
Is it available? Library Catalog

Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
Sadye Louise Logan
WA 300 H4344
Is it available? Library Catalog

Special Populations in the Community: Advances in Reducing Health Disparities
Juliann Sebastian
WA 300 S741
Is it available? Library Catalog

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Brian D. Smedley
WA 300 U515
Is it available? Library Catalog

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