HEDU 5300: Diversity & Health
A course guide for Jackie Farnsworth's class
9 Great Starting Points to Learn More About Your Population
Listed below are 9 great starting points (websites & ebooks) for all HEDU 5300 groups.
Government Websites
NOTICE: As of February 2025 some government websites have removed data and reports. Please contact Tallie or Alfred if you cannot find the data/reports that you need. The 2025 Data Rescue Overview includes resources for locating these data. The Internet Archives' CDC datasets are a good starting point (download both data and meta data files).
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Office of Minority Health
"These profiles provide detailed demographic, language fluency (where relevant), education, economic, insurance coverage and health status information, as well as full census reports."
***As of 2/14/2025 these profiles are available at the Office of Minority Health website. We proactively downloaded PDFs of this content using the Internet Archives' WayBack Machine. These PDFs are on the library's HEDU 5300 Canvas course. -
Cultural Orientation Resource (CORE) ExchangeSome reports have been updated and there is archived information (2007-2015) on refugee populations from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bosnia, Burma, Congo, Darfur (region in western Sudan), Hmong, Iraq, Syria, and other areas
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Bhutanese RefugeesArchived report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2022
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Archived CDC Refugee Health Information**As of June 19, 2024, these refugee profiles no longer exist on the CDC website. We added PDFs of the content to the library's Canvas course that we found using the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.
Library eBooks
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Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America
Publication Date: 2014Has chapters on African Americans, Bosnian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Sudanese Americans, Tibetan Americans, Navajo (Dine), Iraqi Americans, Syrian Americans, etc. -
Textbook for transcultural health care : a population approach: Cultural competence concepts in nursing care
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ISBN: 9783030513993Publication Date: 2021Updated and expanded edition of the Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care edited by Larry. D Purnell in 2014. -
Health promotion in multicultural populations: A handbook for practioners and students
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".... the Third Edition of Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations offers both students and practitioners an indispensable resource on assessment and implementation guidelines for promoting health and enhancing behaviors that optimize health in any cultural community. Leading experts explore a wide range of topics, including the context of culture, cross-cultural perceptions of health, conceptual approaches to multicultural health promotion, health disparities, and the contributions of multicultural populations. Using the Cultural Assessment Framework (CAF), this proven handbook includes a focus on six specific populations (Hispanic/Latino, African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian American, Pacific Islanders, and Arab Americans)....".
Call Number: RA427.8 .H432 2015ISBN: 9781452276960Publication Date: 2014 -
Physical activity in diverse populations
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The health benefits associated with regular physical activity are now widely recognized. This book examines how social determinants such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and disability can impact on physical activity and its associated health outcomes. It explores the social, cultural, political and environmental factors that influence engagement in physical activity in a range of diverse populations and presents evidence-based, culturally appropriate strategies for targeting and promoting physical activity participation. Each chapter considers how the social determinants that impact on health are formed by the environments in which people live, work, learn and play. Incorporating a series of original case studies, this book analyzes physical activity behaviors in groups such as: African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans military veterans and physically disabled populations low-income populations rural populations LGBT populations. It also includes a variety of useful features such as key terms, summary points and critical thinking questions, as well as a chapter on international perspectives. Physical Activity in Diverse Populations: Evidence and Practice is vital reading for any course touching on social factors in physical activity behavior.
ISBN: 9781317200826Publication Date: 2017 -
Guide to culturally competent health care byISBN: 0803639627Publication Date: 2014"The Purnell Model is your guide as you explore 34 different cultures and the issues that you need to be sensitive to...including cultural variations regarding personal space, dietary preferences, communication, symptom management, activities of daily living, and religious and health practices."
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Health Inequality in the US
Listed below are key reviews & studies about the research on health inequality in the US.
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Health Inequity in the United States: A Primer (PDF)By José J. Escarce, MD, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
December 2019
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Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed ResearchDavid R. Williams, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, and Brigette A. Davis.
January 2019
Annual Review of Public Health
Healthy People 2030
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Healthy People 2030Healthy People 2030 is an national initiative to improve health & well-being in the US
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