Understanding Disparities in Perinatal Health and Birth Outcomes: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
Monday, May 8, 2006, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Eastern Time

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Federal and Federally-Supported Resources:

• Department of Health and Human Services – http://www.dhhs.gov/
  • Office of Minority Health – http://www.omhrc.gov/
  • Closing the Health Gap Campaign – http://www.healthgap.omhrc.gov/
• Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau - http://mchb.hrsa.gov/
  • Bureau of Primary Health Care – http://bphc.hrsa.gov/
    • Health Disparities Collaboratives – http://www.healthdisparities.net/
  • Maternal and Child Health Library – http://www.mchlibrary.info/
    • Knowledge Path: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health – http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_race.htm
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control – http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/default.htm
  • Office of Minority Health – http://www.cdc.gov/omh/AboutUs/disparities.htm
  • National Center for Health Statistics – http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
  • National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Safe Motherhood Program – http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/
  • Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) – http://www.cdc.gov/PRAMS/index.htm
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – http://www.ahrq.gov
  • National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005 - http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr05/nhdr05.htm
• National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities – http://ncmhd.nih.gov/

Academic Resources:

• The Johns Hopkins University, Women and Children’s Health Policy Center – http://www.jhsph.edu/wchpc/
• Northwestern University, Center on Social Disparities and Health – http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/c2s/index.html
• University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities – http://www.jhsph.edu/wchpc/
• University of California, San Francisco, Center on Social Disparities in Health – http://www.ucsf.edu/csdh/
• University of Michigan, Michigan Initiative on Inequalities in Health - http://www.sph.umich.edu/miih/
• Harvard Center for Society and Health - http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/society/index.html
• Stanford University, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research – http://chppcor.stanford.edu/

Private Sector Resources:

• Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs – http://www.amchp.org
• The Commonwealth Fund – http://www.cmwf.org
• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation – http://www.kff.org/
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – http://www.rwjf.org/
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation – www.wkkf.org/

Selected Publications:

• Braveman P. Health disparities and health equity: concepts and measurement. Annu Rev Public Health. 2006;27:167-94. Available at: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
• Braveman PA, Cubbin C, Egerter S, Chideya S, Marchi KS, Metzler M, Posner S. Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit all. JAMA. 2005 Dec 14;294(22):2879-88. Available at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/
• Braveman PA, Egerter SA, Cubbin C, Marchi KS. An approach to studying social disparities in health and health care. Am J Public Health. 2004 Dec;94(12):2139-48. Available at: http://www.ajph.org/
• Chen E, Martin AD, Matthews KA. Understanding health disparities: the role of race and socioeconomic status in children’s health. American Journal of Public Health. April 2006;96:702–708. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
• Collins JW, Jr., David RJ, Handler A, Wall S, Andes S. Very low birthweight in African American infants: the role of maternal exposure to interpersonal racial discrimination. American Journal of Public Health. December 2004;94:2132–2138. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
• Collins JW, Jr., Simon DM, Jackson TA, Drolet A. Advancing material age and infant birth weight among urban African Americans: the effect of neighborhood poverty. Ethnicity and Disease. Winter 2006;16:180–186. http://www.ishib.org/ED_index.asp
• Egerter S, Marchi K, Cubbin C, Braveman P, Salganicoff A, Ranji U. Disparities in maternal and infant health: are we making progress? Lessons from California. San Francisco: The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation; fall 2004. Available at: http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/7157.cfm
• Gee GC. A multilevel analysis of the relationship between institutional and individual racial discrimination and health status. American Journal of Public Health. April 2002;92:615–623. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
• Gee GC, Payne-Sturges DC. Environmental health disparities: a framework integrating psychosocial and environmental concepts. Environmental Health Perspectives. December 2004;112:1645–1653. Available at: http://www.ehponline.org/
• Goldhagen J, Remo R, Bryant T III, Wludyka P, Dailey A, Wood D, Watts G, Livingood W. The health status of Southern children: a neglected regional disparity. Pediatrics. 2005;116:746–753. Available at: www.pediatrics.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2005-0366.
• Howell E, Pettit K, Kingsley T. Trends in Maternal and Infant Health in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: Good News from the 1990s but Challenges Remain. Public Health Reports July/August 2005. 120(4):409-417. Available at http://www.publichealthreports.org/
• Kahn RS, Wilson K, Wise PH. Intergenerational health disparities: socioeconomic status, women’s health conditions, and child behavior problems. Public Health Reports. July–August 2005;120:399–408. Available at http://www.publichealthreports.org/
• Kahn RS, Zuckerman B, Bauchner H, Homer CJ, Wise PH. Women’s health after pregnancy and child outcomes at age 3 years: a prospective cohort study. American Journal of Public Health. August 2002;92:1312–1318. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
• Lu MC, Halfon N. Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: a life course perspective. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2003;7(1):13-30. Available at: www.kluweronline.com/issn/1092-7875
• Shi L, Stevens GD, Wulu JT Jr, Politzer RM, Xu J. America's health centers: reducing racial and ethnic disparities in perinatal care and birth outcomes. Health Serv Res. 2004 Dec;39(6 Pt 1):1881-901. Available at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/hesr
• Wise PH. The transformation of child health in the United States. Health Affairs. 2004;23(5):9–25. DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.23.5.9. Available at: http://www.healthaffairs.org/
• Wise PH. The anatomy of a disparity in infant mortality. Annu Rev Public Health. 2003;24:341-62. Epub 2001 Nov 6. Review. Available at http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/