Minority Health Resources

Pittsburgh Region

• Allegheny County Health Department
  Includes Community Health Profiles with minority information.
• UPMC Cancer Centers: Early Detection and Prevention Services: African American Cancer Program
  The African American Cancer Program focuses on western Pennsylvania's African American population, whose cancer education, diagnostic and treatment needs often go undetected or unaddressed for a variety of socioeconomic reasons. UPMC Cancer Centers is addressing the problems of higher cancer morbidity and morality in the regional African American population through efforts to increase awareness of cancer prevention and early detection strategies.
• University Center for Social and Urban Research
  This center at the University of Pittsburgh regularly publishes studies dealing with Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Southwestern Pennsylvania.
  • Allegheny County Health in Black and White - April 2011
  • The Health Status of African Americans in Allegheny County - January 2002
    These papers analyze current health conditions and problems of African Americans in Allegheny County and suggest some local policies and programs for improving conditions and alleviating problems.

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Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Department of Health: Minority Health and Health Equity
  There are 7 Minority Health Disparities Reports produced that identify public health problems where there are significant differences between Whites and other races or ethnicities.

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Websites

Fact sheets and other medical information

• American Diabetes Association: African American Program
  With diabetes on the rise among African Americans, an ambitious and groundbreaking program was created to increase diabetes awareness among those most at risk.
• Heart Healthy Home Cooking African American Style
  On this page from the National Institutes of Health, you can download a 32 page booklet with heart healthy recipes.
• Institute of Medicine: Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
  This is a March 2002 report in which a panel of experts documents inequality in health care and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Published by the National Academies Press, you may read this report online.
• Kaiser Family Foundation: Minority Health
  • Minority Health Facts by State
    From the Kaiser Family Foundation's statehealthfacts.org
• MeulinePlus: African American Health
  Links to the latest news and studies on African American Health. From the National Library of Medicine.
• Multicultural Action Center
  From NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness).
• National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
  From the National Institutes of Health.
• National Medical Association
  The nation's oldest and largest professional, educational and scientific organization representing the interests of African-American physicians and promoting optimum health for African-American and medically underserved populations.
• Office of Minority Health
  The Office of Minority Health (OMH) was created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1985 as a result of the Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health. Under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, OMH advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) on public health issues affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, Blacks/African Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos.
  • Closing the Health Gap
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and ABC Radio Networks are working together to sponsor Closing the Health Gap, a national campaign to bring the best health information to African Americans and other communities of color, and to help consumers take charge of their health. This website offers links to further information on a variety of medical conditions and consumer topics.