Selected Articles
Racial Disparities in Health Outcomes

Let's End Health Disparities
Dr. Neil Calman offers other physicians helpful suggestions for counteracting racial and economic hardships that cause patients to have worse health outcomes. These include scheduling more frequent visits for patients with chronic illness; keeping a list of resources where people can go for help with food stamps, housing problems, employment, and so on; using a translation service; and more. On the Web site of Family Practice News. Look in "View All Issues" for the November 15, 2008 issue; the article is on page 32.

Separate and Unequal: Medical Apartheid in New York City
Bronx Health REACH, a community coalition led by the Institute for Urban Family Health, conducted a study that found pervasive segregation of health care services, based on the link between race, ethnicity and insurance status. Their report contains findings and recommendations for change. October, 2005
Visit the Bronx Health REACH Web site.

Make Health Equality a Reality
(Requires Powerpoint to view; use the PageDown and PageUp keys to advance to the next slide.) This presentation, containing data on health disparities, is designed to educate health care providers about the pervasiveness of racial and ethnic health disparities and the steps that can be taken to eliminate such inequity. Presented at the NYS Association of Family Practitioners, June 2004.

From Research to Social Action: Engaging the Public's Trust through a Sustained Partnership Committed to Solving the Problems We Study. Presentation to the NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives, April 2004.

Sullivan Commission Testimony
October, 2003
Alarming statistics reveal that minority enrollment in health professional schools is very low -- Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians make up more than 25 percent of the U.S. population but less than 14 percent of physicians, 9 percent of nurses, and 5 percent of dentists. The Institute's Dr. Neil Calman and Maxine Golub, MPH, testified before a commission led by former HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., on the impact of this trend.

Out of the Shadow
(On the Web site of Health Affairs Magazine)
A white inner-city doctor wrestles with racial prejudice. By Neil Calman, M.D., president of the Institute for Family Health. Published by Health Affairs, "Business of Health," January/February, 2000. Volume 19 Number 1, Project HOPE -- The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

Racial Disparities in Health Outcomes
Eyewitness News Tiempo’s Joe Torres interviewed Maxine Golub, senior vice president of the Institute for Family Health, on November 26, 2000.