Resources

The Affordable Care Act and Reducing Health Disparities

• Webinar on Language Accesss for the Health Benefits Marketplace
• New York Health Benefit Exchange: Reducing Health Disparities
• National Women's Law Center
• Raising Women's Voices 
• Countdown to Coverage 
• "The Affordable Care Act Gives Women Greater Control Over Their 
• Own Health Care"
• NY Health Benefit Exchange website
• Healthcare.gov
• The Affordable Care Act and Your Family 
• Enroll America  
• Kaiser Health Reform Source: The States 
• Community Catalyst. Promoting Racial and Health Equity Through the Exchanges 

Resources for Health Care Providers

• Ojos saludables: Vision Care (in Spanish)
• Dientes saludables: Dental Care (in Spanish)
• Depression and Heart Disease (in Spanish)
• ABC's of Stress and What to Do about It
• Finding an Eye Doctor Accepting Medicaid
• Low Cost Medical Service Providers: Rensselaer and Schenectady
• Low Cost Albany Medical Service Providers
• Diabetes and African Americans in the Capital Region
• Heart Disease and Stroke Among African Americans in the Capital Region
• Taking Charge of Your Health
• Sugary Drinks Nutrition and Marketing to Youth

The brochures were developed by a community-based Task Force in response to prioritized needs identified by minority community members during focus groups. The brochures may be freely downloaded in pdf form (click here to download Adobe Acrobat). For more information, contact cemhd@albany.edu

Resources for Community-Based Organizations

Minority Health Disparities is one of the top priorities on the nation’s healthcare agenda and narrowing this breach is one of the top two priorities of the Federal Government and the Department of Health and Human Services. Click here for a list of research and resources on minority health disparities includes links to the primary institutions tracking and supporting this public health issue.

includes links to the primary institutions tracking and supporting this public health issue.

To become initiated on this topic, the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health would be good places to start.

Further Information

National

• NIH: Strategic Plan on Reducing Health Disparities
• CDC Office of Minority Health, Racial and Ethnic Populations
• ethnomed
• Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report (formerly the Health Disparities Report)
• MEDLINEplus: African-American Health
• National Alliance for Hispanic Health
• National Area Health Education Center Organization (NAO)
• National Center for Health Statistics Minority Health
• National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
• National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations (2013)
• National Health Law Program (NHeLP)
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
  • HHS Awards $85 Million to Eliminate Health Disparities
  • Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
  • National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008
  • Office for Civil Rights
    • Health Disparities/Nondiscriminatory Quality Health Care
  • Office of Minority Health Resource Center Information and Referral Services
    
    • National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)

New York State