Health Equity Research: Further Resources
While ordinary websites are not good sources of scholarly journal articles, the selected government and non-government websites below have other types of useful resources such as policies, descriptions of programs, data, etc., which you can explore.
Visit the website of CSUSB's Center for Health Equity and don't miss our guides to finding health statistics on the Internet. Try your own Google searches using a special command and rely on our guide to evaluating websites to see if you found something you can use for your research.
ADDITIONAL LINKS OF INTEREST
- CSUSB Center for Health EquityThe primary purpose of the Center for Health Equity is to increase the research, scholarship, and training opportunities for faculty and students in the area of health disparities.
GUIDES TO HEALTH STATISTICS
- Health Statistics on the InternetFind global and national health statistics on government websites.
- Coronavirus ResourcesSelected sources in one convenient location.
SELECTED CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ENTITIES
- California Conference of Local Health Officers: Health Equity CommitteeMeeting dates and agendas.
- DisparitiesCalifornia Department of Public Health programs focused on disparities.
- Community Health Assessment & Health EquityFrom the San Bernardino County department of Public Health.
A SPECIAL GOOGLE COMMAND
The entities included in this page are just a small sample to get you started exploring on your own. Use a special Google command (site:) to limit your searches to government, nonprofit, or educational sources:
"health equity" site:gov
"health equity" site:org
"health equity" site:edu
Using this special command does not guarantee you will retrieve high quality, trustworthy websites, but it will help a lot. You will still have to carefully evaluate the websites you visit.
A GUIDE TO EVALUATING WEBSITES
- Evaluating WebsitesLearn how to determine whether or not a web site is reliable.
SELECTED NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES
- Healthy People 2020From the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Use the Data Search in the toolbar.
- Health EquityFrom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This site specializes in tracking chronic diseases.
- Health EquityAn additional site with the same title from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than just chronic diseases here.
- Health EquityFrom the American Public Health Association. Explore topics and issues relating to health equity.
- Office of Health EquityUnder the auspices of the Health Resources & Services Administration. Use the Data Warehouse on the toolbar to explore.
SELECTED NON-GOVERNMENT ENTITIES
- Health Equity: Why it Matters and How to Take ActionFrom the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, our guiding principles serve as our commitment to continue working passionately toward improved health and health care for everyone in America.
- Delivering Care: Health EquityFrom the American Medical Association.
- IHI White Papers: Achieving Health Equity: A Guide for Health Care OrganizationsFrom the Institute for Health Improvement. A "white paper" is a report from a government agency which addresses specific solutions to a problem.
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health EquityWe are driven to advance effective health system and community practices and policies that will achieve health equity in the U.S. and around the world; we achieve this through leadership, research, community engagement, education, and policy translation.
- Minority Health and Health Equity ArchiveWelcome to the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.
- American Indian Cancer FoundationThe American Indian Cancer Foundation (AICAF) is a national non-profit organization that was established to address the tremendous cancer inequities faced by Native communities. AICAF is Native-governed; its board members and employees have an array of experience serving the health needs of our people.
