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Contact: Mathematica , P.O. Box 2393, Princeton, NJ 08543-2393, Telephone: (609) 799-3535 Fax: (609) 799-0005 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com

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Keywords: Housing, Social discrimination

Annotation: This paper provides a framework for health care organizations to improve health equity in the communities they serve. Topics include making health equity a strategic priority, developing structure and processes to support health equity work, deploying specific strategies to address the multiple determinants of health on which health care organizations can have a direct impact, decreasing institutional racism within the organization, and developing partnerships with community organizations to improve health and equity. The paper also describes practical issues in measuring health equity, presents a case study of the Henry Ford Health System, and includes a self-assessment tool for health care organizations to assess their current state related to each component of the framework.

Contact: Institute for Healthcare Improvement , 20 University Road, Seventh Floor , Cambridge , MA 02138, Telephone: (617) 301-4800 Secondary Telephone: (866) 787-0831 Fax: (617) 301-4830 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ihi.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Community participation, Discrimination, Equal opportunities, Health care delivery, Health disparities, Health systems agencies, Inclusion, Measures, Organizational change, Program improvement, Quality assurance, Self evaluation, Social bias

Annotation: This letter provides guidance for schools in the area of disability discrimination and urges schools to work proactively to ensure a safe school environment for all students. Contents include an overview of federal protections for students with disabilities in schools; the elements of a violation; how complaints involving bullying of students with disabilities are analyzed; and hypothetical examples that illustrate varying circumstances when conduct may constitute a violation. The guidance also offers insight into what might be required of a school to remedy instances of bullying upon a finding of disability discrimination.

Contact: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202-1100, Telephone: (800) 421-3481 Fax: (202) 453-6012 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html Available from the website.

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Keywords: Adolescents with special health care needs, Bullying, Children with special health care needs, Schools, Social discrimination

Annotation: This book focuses on how the prospects for health and well-being are influenced by social inequalities. Contents include an overview of the early history of public health and how some of the greatest achievements prefigure a contemporary health equity practice; the root causes of health inequities including class, racism, and gender inequity and heterosexism; profiles of health equity practice; elements of health equity practice that have emerged from the work of state and local health departments across the United States; and reflections on a future health equity practice.

Contact: National Association of County and City Health Officials, 1100 17th Street, N.W., Seventh Floor, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 783-5550 Fax: (202) 783-1583 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.naccho.org $9.95 members; $19.95 nonmembers. Document Number: NA614.

Keywords: Civil rights, Equal opportunities, Gender discrimination, Public health agencies, Racial discrimination, Sexism, Social discrimination

Annotation: This resource kit presents an overview of current health issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. It describes the top physical, behavioral, and sexual health issues and examines the prevalence of substance abuse within each of these populations. Included are helpful terms for prevention specialists and healthcare providers, a discussion about gender identity, selected web-based resources, and powerpoint slides that focus on the top health issues for the LGBT populations. The tools in the kit may be used separately or together and are intended to help raise awareness of the physical and behavioral health status and needs of the LGBT populations.

Contact: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: (877) SAMHSA-7 Secondary Telephone: (877) 726-4727 E-mail: Web Site: https://www.samhsa.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Health promotion, Homosexuality, Psychosocial development, Public awareness materials, Sexuality, Social discrimination

Annotation: This report examines how current laws, practices, and social stigma hurt children with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) parents and work against achieving the goals of securing stable, loving homes for all children and ensuring economic security, heath, and well-being for all children. The authors assess key challenges that stand in the way of achieving these goals and offer recommendations for eliminating or reducing inequities and improving the lives of children with LGBT parents.

Contact: Family Equality Council, P.O. Box 206, Boston, MA 02133, Telephone: (617) 502-8700 Fax: (617) 502-8701 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.familyequality.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child development, Child health, Children, Economic factors, Families, Homosexuality, Parents, Sex factors, Social discrimination, Social factors, Sociocultural factors

Annotation: This paper describes a review of different frameworks for understanding the social determinants of health and how it was summarized and synthesized into a single conceptual framework for action. The paper also identifies elements of policy directions for action implied by the proposed conceptual framework and analysis of policy approaches.

Contact: World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia, Geneva, Switzerland , Telephone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11 Fax: (+ 41 22) 791 3111 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.who.int/en Available from the website.

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Keywords: Alienation, Community action, Discrimination, Equal opportunities, Health status, Life course, Models, Policy analysis, Policy development, Political systems, Public policy, Social values, Sociocultural factors, Socioeconomic factors, Theories

Annotation: This webcast on social justice and maternal and child health (MCH) was held on January 20, 2005. The webcast featured three presenters: (1) Magda Peck, from the Section on Child Health Policy, Dept. of Pediatrics, CityMatCH in Omaha Nebraska, discussed the concept of social justice within the framework of local public health; (2) Wendell Brunner, from Contra Costa Health Services in Contra Costa California, who provides an overview of social justice and MCH, including definitions of key terms and a discussion of health disparities (3) Mary Ostrem, from the Boston Public Health Commission, who discusses social justice and MCH from the perspective of a fetal and infant mortality review (FIMR) program. The complete audio recording, along with all three powerpoint presentations, are available online. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: CityMatCH, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, 982170 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-2170, Telephone: (402) 552-9500 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.citymatch.org

Keywords: Community programs, Cultural factors, Ethnic factors, MCH programs, Multimedia, Policy development, Public health, Racial factors, Social discrimination, Social factors

Annotation: The papers collected in this volume reveal the contribution of African American voices to understanding the relationship between justice and care. The first part of the text provides a psychological perspective on moral formation among African Americans during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Part two provides practical, pedagogical perspectives drawn from the past, present, and ongoing challenges of African American educational practices, focusing on what African American voices have to say about promoting care, justice, and moral formation within schools. Appendices include information on chapter-correlated films that illustrate these values and a summary of ways in which each chapter contributes to the understanding of each of the justice-and-care primary dual values. References, information on the contributors, and an index are included.

Contact: Teacher's College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, Telephone: (800) 575-6566 Secondary Telephone: (212) 678-3929 Fax: (212) 678-4149 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.tcpress.com Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-8077-4449-2.

Keywords: Blacks, Criminal justice system, Education, Life skills, Moral development, Moral values, Racial discrimination, Racial factors, Racism, Social discrimination, Social integration, Social values

Annotation: This pamphlet discusses how to use a book club to learn about bias, discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice. It explains how books can be catalysts for change, how to make a book club a reality, the impact of such a book club, and how a book club can grow into something larger. The pamphlet also includes start-up strategies, sample book club selections, and contact information. The pamphlet highlights the experiences of the Family Support Organization of Burlington County, NJ, a group of parents or guardians of children with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.

Contact: National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, P.O. Box 571485, Washington, DC 20057-1485, Telephone: (202) 687-5387 Secondary Telephone: (800) 788-2066 Fax: (202) 687-8899 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://nccc.georgetown.edu Available from the website.

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Keywords: Community programs, Cultural competence, Discrimination, Groups, Model programs, Racism, Reading, Social bias

Annotation: This book examines factors that affect the delivery of health services to women and children; it considers biases that have influenced the perceptions of the typically male practitioners in the medical profession. It offers a feminist perspective of health services and of the assumptions that affect the education of family practitioners. The book explores how these assumptions affect infant and child development, women's adult development, the family life cycle, violence against women, and incest and sexual abuse; the following factors affecting the doctor-patient relationship are also explored: the relationship as contract, bases of knowledge in medicine, the role of the doctor, caring, and power.

Keywords: Children, Development, Education, Family centered services, Feminism, Health professionals, Health services, Social discrimination, Women

Annotation: [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Community participation, Counseling, Developmental disabilities, Families, Family support services, Parent professional relations, Social bias, Social discrimination, Social policy, Special health care services

Annotation: This book discusses discrimination against persons with disabilities. It is theorized that it is the result of stereotypes and misconceptions on the part of both health care professionals and the rest of society. Civil rights action and special education approaches are recommended to end the discrimination, particularly that in the employment market, against people with disabilities.

Contact: Harcourt Trade Publishers , 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101, Telephone: (619) 231-6616 Web Site: http://www.harcourtbooks.com/default.asp?source=headerlogo Available in libraries.

Keywords: Attitudes, Developmental disabilities, Legislation, Physical disabilities, Social discrimination, Special education, Special health care needs

Annotation: This book discusses social inequities that hamper children, examines the history of past efforts at reform, and suggests changes for the quality of children's lives in the United States. The author examines the American claim of equal opportunity, especially regarding children born into poverty, their chances of rising out of that poverty, and causes of their inequality.

Keywords: Children, Children', Equal opportunities, Poverty, Social discrimination, United States, s rights