Resource Library

• CDC Resources
• REACH Health Priority Area Resources
• Other Government Resources
• Non-Government Resources
• Publications

CDC Resources

• Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (Dr. Wayne Giles presentation at 2007 SOPHE Conference) (PDF—370K)
• At A Glance 2007
• Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in the United States
• CDC awards funding to community coalitions for projects to help eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities
• Diabetes Projects: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Initiatives
• Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
• Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality
• New CDC report identifies state-by-state gaps in health risk factors for racial and ethnic groups
• The Power to Reduce Health Disparities: Voices from REACH Communities (PDF–6.7M)
  A limited number of this publication can be ordered.
• REACHing Across the Divide: Finding Solutions to Health Disparities (PDF–1.8M)
  A limited number of this publication can be ordered.
• Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality — Second Edition

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REACH Health Priority Area Resources

• Cardiovascular Health
• Diabetes Public Health Resource
  • Diabetes Projects: National Hispanic/Latino Diabetes Initiative for Action
  • National Diabetes Education Program
  • Diabetes and Flu/Pneumococcal Campaign
  • State-Based Diabetes Control Programs
• HIV/AIDS Prevention
• National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program
• National Immunization Program
• Reproductive Health

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Other Government Resources

Bureau of Primary Health Care (Health Resources and Services Administration)

• Models That Work Campaign

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institutes of Health)

• Diabetes of African Americans
• Diabetes in American Indians and Alaska Natives
• Diabetes in Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
• Diabetes in Hispanic Americans

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• The Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)

• Health Care: Approaches to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities (PDF-288K)

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Non-government Resources

• SOPHE Publishes Special Journal Issues on Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities
  http://www.sagepublications.com/promos/1068104_sophe.html

• Health Disparities Collaboratives*

American Diabetes Association

• Major Federal Employment Laws Affecting People With Diabetes*
• Third-Party Reimbursement for Diabetes Care, Self-Management Education and Supplies*

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Publications

Intervening on the social determinants of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Am J Prev Med. 2005 Dec;29(5 Suppl 1):18–24. (Liburd, L., Jack, L., Williams, S., Tucker P.)

Reflections on the Past, Reaching for the Future: REACH 2010—The First 7 Years.  Health Promot Pract. 2006 Jun 7 (Wayne Giles and Leandris Liburd) http://hpp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/7/3_suppl/179S

Looking through a glass, darkly: eliminating health disparities (PDF–79K). Preventing Chronic Disease. 2006 Jul;3(3):A72. E-publication (Leandris Liburd, Wayne Giles, George Mensah)

Eliminating health disparities in the African American population: the interface of culture, gender, and power. Health Educ Behav. 2006 Aug;33(4):488–501. (Leandris Liburd, et. al) http://heb.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/33/4/488

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Page last reviewed: July 23, 2007
Page last modified: July 23, 2007
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion