About This Guide
This guide features library and online sources related to health equity. Each page of the guide focuses on different topics, including health issues surrounding race, culture and ethnicity, LGBTQIA+ and gender, disabilities, religion, and socio-economic status.
Search Library Databases
We provide access to databases from leading information providers. Below is a list of databases that offer sources on topics of health equity.
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Database - Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database that provides journals covering English, communications, humanities, philosophy, political science, and other social sciences.
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Database - Ethnic NewsWatchEthnic NewsWatch features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. This database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
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Database - GenderWatchGenderWatch enhances gender and women’s studies and LGBTQIA+ research by providing authoritative perspectives from 1970 to the present.
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Database - ProQuest One Religion & PhilosophyProQuest One Religion & Philosophy spans theology, history, and philosophy and explores the enduring influence of religion and philosophy on human history, society, and culture.
Explore Health Equity eBooks
Below are selected eBooks from the library that provide general overviews on eliminating health disparities, achieving health equity, and promoting health literacy.
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Deconstructing Health Inequity: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective
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ISBN: 9783030680527Publication Date: 2021This book offers a radically different perspective on the topic of health inequity. The authors use Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to deconstruct current approaches to understanding, investigating, and addressing problems of health inequity. -
Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care: Your Story/Our Story - A Case-Based Compendium
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ISBN: 9783319927619Publication Date: 2018This edition focuses on bias in healthcare and provides a variety of case examples related to the timely topics of unconscious bias and microaggressions encountered by patients and medical professionals. -
Governing for Health: Advancing Health and Equity Through Policy and Advocacy
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ISBN: 9780190258948Publication Date: 2019This book is an actionable roadmap to a society that draws prosperity from advancing the health of its people. It utilizes methods of progress-measuring, city planning, and progressive policy foci to advance goals that are unreachable in traditional, economics-driven government practice. -
Health Disparities: Weaving a New Understanding Through Case Narratives
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ISBN: 9783030127701Publication Date: 2019This volume challenges professionals to understand health disparities. The authors focus on marginalized populations, the role of healthcare systems in perpetuating inequities, the need for deeper engagement and listening by professionals, and the need for advocacy within professional education and the political/policy arena. -
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health
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ISBN: 9781421432588Publication Date: 2019Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate health disparities and offers potential policy- and physician-based solutions for reducing health inequity in the long term. -
Health Equity, Social Justice and Human Rights
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ISBN: 9780367281373Publication Date: 2020This book demystifies systems set up for the protection and promotion of human rights globally, regionally, and nationally. It explores the use and usefulness of rights-based approaches as an important part of the toolbox available to health and welfare professionals and community members working in a variety of settings to improve health and reduce health inequities. -
Prescription for Inequality: Exploring the Social Determinants of Health of At-Risk Groups
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ISBN: 9781440879272Publication Date: 2024This book explores how social determinants of health (SDH) impact the health of a variety of marginalized demographic groups in the United States. -
Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More
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ISBN: 9781984860545Publication Date: 2021This book covers a range of topics, including race, gender, class, disability, relationships, family, power dynamics, oppression, and beyond. This essential guide is a radical but warm and non-judgmental call to arms. -
The Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
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ISBN: 9780190624118Publication Date: 2023This book is a comprehensive resource for students and educators to understand the wide-ranging effects of social and political factors, including racism, on individual health. -
States of Health: The Ethics and Consequences of Policy Variation in a Federal System
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ISBN: 9780197538654Publication Date: 2024This book identifies the practical relevance of federalism to people facing ethical decisions about health and health care, and it considers the theoretical justifications for permissible differences among states. -
Vulnerable Populations in the United States
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ISBN: 9781119627647Publication Date: 2021This book provides a general framework for studying vulnerable populations and summarizes major health and health care disparities by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and health insurance coverage.
