Policy and Politics

American Public Health Association .(2001). Influential and diverse leaders join steering committee of APHA/HHS campaign to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. Retrieved April 24, 2001, from http://www.apha.org/news/press/2000/elim_dispar.htm

Andersen, R. M. (1968). A behavioral model of families’ use of health services (Research Series No. 25). Chicago: Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago.

Andrulis, D. P. (1998, September). Access to care is the centerpiece in the elimination of socioeconomic disparities in health. Annals of Internal Medicine, 129(5), 412-416.

Bero, L. A. , Grilli, R. , Grimshaw, J. M. , Harvey, E. , Oxman, A. D. , & Thomson, M. A. (1998). Closing the gap between research and practice: An overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings. British Medical Journal, 317, 465-468.

Blackman, D. K. , Bennett, E. M. , & Miller, D. S. (1999, October 8). Trends in self-reported use of mammograms (1989-1997) and Papanicolaou tests (1991-1997)—Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC Surveillance Summaries, 48(6), 1-22.

Dominitz, J. A. , Samsa, G. P. , Landsman, O. , & Provenzale, D. (1998). Race, treatment, and survival among colorectal carcinoma patients in an equal-access system. Cancer, 82(12), 2312-2320.

Donabedian, A. (1980). The definition of quality and approaches to its assessment. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press.

Guyer, B. , Freedman, M. A. , Strobino, D. M. , & Sondik, E.J. (2000). Annual summary of vital statistics: Trends in the health of Americans during the 20th century. Pediatrics, 106(6), 1307-1317.

The Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999, S.580 (1999).

Makuc, D. M. , Breen, N. , & Freid, V. (1999). Low income, race, and the use of mammography. Health Serv Res, 34(1), 229-239.

The Minority Health and Health Disparities Act of 2000, P.L. 106-525 (2000).

Resnick, H. E. , Valsania, P. , & Phillips, C. L. (1999). Diabetes mellitus and nontraumatic lower extremity amputation in Black and White Americans: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study, 1971-1992. Archives of Internal Medicine, 159(20), 2470-2475.

Satel, S. (2001). The indoctrinologists are coming. Atlantic Monthly, 287(1), 59-64.

Schulman, K. A. , Berlin, J. A. , Harness, W. , Kerner, J. F. , Sistrunk, S. , Gersh, B.J. , Dube, R. , Taleghani, C. K. , Burke, J.E. , Williams, S. , Eisenberg, J. M. , & Escarce, J.J. (1999). The effect of race and sex on physicians’ recommendations for cardiac catherization. New England Journal of Medicine, 340(8), 618-626.

Schuster, M. A. , McGlynn, E. A. , Brook, R. H. (1998). How good is the quality of care in the United States? Milbank Quarterly, 76(4), 517-563.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services .(2000). Healthy People 2010 (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Wang, H. , Remington, P. L. ,& Kindig, D. A. (1999). How fast can the racial gap in life expectancy between Whites and Blacks be eliminated? Medscape General Medicine, 23(E4), 1-13.

Whittle, J. , Conigliaro, J. , Good, C.B. ,& Joswiak, M. (1997). Do patient preferences contribute to racial differences in cardiovascualr procedure use? Journal of General Internal Medicine, 12(5), 267-273.

Whittle, J. , Conigliaro, J. , Good, C. B. , & Lofgren, R. P. (1993). Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiovascular procedures in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system. New England Journal of Medicine, 329(9), 621-627.