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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.

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

Annotation: This book explores evidence suggesting that race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of health care quality, even when differing socioeconomic conditions are accounted for. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Chapter topics include an introduction and literature review; the healthcare environment and its relation to disparities; assessing potential sources of racial disparities in care: patient- and system-level factors and the clinical encounter; interventions: systemic strategies, cross-cultural education in the health professions; data monitoring and collection; and areas of needed research. The appendices include data sources and methods, the literature review, federal-level and other initiatives to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care; highlights from focus group findings on racial disparities in health care; and committee and staff biographies. References, contributed articles, and an index are provided.

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Keywords: Cultural barriers, Cultural diversity, Culturally competent services, Ethnic factors, Health care delivery, Health care utilization, Racial discrimination, Racial factors, Research, Socioeconomic factors

Annotation: This report assesses the nation's response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 decision that the unjustified institutionalization of people with disabilities is a form of discrimination. It reports on the extent of unnecessary institutionalization in the United States, the continuing barriers to community placement, and resources and services models that facilitate community integration. It examines the federal government's implementation efforts and the strategies states and key stakeholders are using to (1) develop consensus on a coordinated actions plan, (2) identify and commit the necessary resources for community-based service options, and (3) sustain collaborative action toward creating real choice for people with disabilities living in institutions. The report includes an executive summary, a "lessons learned" section, and conclusions and recommendations. The appendix describes the mission of the National Council on Disability. A full-length online version is also available.

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Keywords: Barriers, Collaboration, Communities, Community based services, Community programs, Deinstitutionalization, Disabilities, Discrimination, Federal courts, Institutionalization, Models, Service coordination, Special health care needs, State programs

Annotation: This package, recommended for grades 8 and above, includes a documentary film exploring the historical struggle for equality through the eyes of today's young people, as well as an illustrated text and a teacher's guide. Eight adolescents tell stories about their own struggle as well as their ancestors' struggle with racial and sexual orientation-related discrimination. Topics include religious freedom; slavery, segregation, the Fugitive Slave Law; Native American's right to their ancestral home; immigrant laborers' struggles to obtain a fair days wage for a fair days work; suffrage; gender inequity in school sports; unjust laws aimed at immigrants of Japanese ancestry; and disability rights. The text concludes with suggestions for additional reading. The teacher's guide includes 13 detailed lesson plans to be used in conjunction with the text and the video.

Keywords: Audiovisual materials, Cultural factors, Discrimination, Educational materials, Equal opportunities, Ethnic factors, History, Homosexuality, Racial factors, Tolerance, Videotapes, Women's rights

Annotation: This book describes racial segregation and discrimination in health care in the United States from 1920 to the end of the twentieth century. The first part of the book describes choices that produced the health care civil right struggle, including the background and evolution of the country's divided health care system, early battles to integrate hospitals at the national policy level, events in North Carolina where key legal precedents were set, the enforcement of the 1964 civil rights legislation in the implementation of Medicare, and subsequent decline and dissipation of attention to civil rights issues in pubic health. The second part discusses the accomplishments and uncompleted agenda of the civil rights movement as it pertains to health care, impact on services provided to the elderly, and alternative strategies for dealing with the current situation.

Keywords: Blacks, Civil rights, Health services, Racial discrimination

Annotation: This publication demonstrates how schools can meet the educational and psychological needs of America's increasingly diverse student population. Illustrative programs are described that value the uniqueness of each individual and recognize and respect student diversity as a strength. Articles include information that promote knowledge and understanding of the effects of culture, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and language on students' learning and behavior. Overall, the articles provide approaches to promote a safe learning environment for children. The guide is intended for parents, educators, administrators, pupil services providers, and policy makers.

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Keywords: Cultural diversity, Cultural sensitivity, Disabilities, Ethnic factors, Gender discrimination, Homosexuality, Racial factors, Religion, Students

Annotation: This book is a collection of nine essays that examine women's health status and health care delivery in different countries and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. The authors are members of the Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners whose primary interest is in feminist approaches to women's health. The book is the result of a four-year collaborative research project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The essays are entitled: A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health Care; Situating Women in the Politics of Health; The Politics of Health: Geneticization Versus Health Promotion; Contested Bodies, Contested Knowledges: Women, Health, and the Politics of Medicalization; Agency, Diversity, and Constraints: Women and Their Physicians, Canada, 1850-1950; Reflections on the Transfer of "Progress": The Case of Reproduction; Anomalous Women and Political Strategies for Aging Societies; (Re)fashioning Medicine's Response to Wife Abuse; and Reframing Research Involving Humans. Notes are provided at the end of each essay. A list of references and biographies of the authors are included in the book.

Keywords: Africa, Bioethics, Canada, Ethics, Gender discrimination, Health care delivery, Health promotion, Japan, North America, Research, Women's health

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: This book draws on research data and interviews to explore current issues in gender, health and the combination of various life roles for women. The author discusses the costs and benefits of being a working mother, the link between life circumstances and well being or lack of it, how children are faring, and how men fit into the life of women who are juggling different roles.

Keywords: Employment, Families, Gender discrimination, Sex role, Working mothers

Annotation: This report examines the economic and legal effects of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978, designed to prevent discrimination against pregnant women. It discusses the economic effects of the PDA; costs and benefits; the legal and political implications; and moving beyond the PDA. The report ends with appendices on employment rates, women covered by short term disability insurance, PDA cases, a list of data sources, and a reference list.

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Keywords: Demography, Disability insurance, Discrimination, Economic factors, Employment, Legal issues, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Pregnant women, Statistics

Annotation: This book was developed for service providers, parents, and others interested in education-provided health services. The book provides a framework to assess health services at schools and colleges, evaluate whether or not these services are sex fair, and identify and implement needed changes. Specific topic areas include: schools and pregnant students, sex education and birth control services and programs, gynecologic and reproductive health care, student health insurance, sports medicine, alcohol and drug abuse services and programs, mental health services, and other health services and programs. The conclusion provides a summary of the principles for evaluating sex fairness in each of these eight areas. Appendices include an outline of the provisions in the Title IX statute, the law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education programs; model assessment tools to gather information regarding Title IX and school health services; and a bibliography listing pertinent sources and references.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Educational programs, Gender discrimination, Health services

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.

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's rights, Equal opportunities, Poverty, Social discrimination, United States