Volume 17, Issue 1 (2017) Innovative Practices to Eliminate Health Disparities
Implications
Injustice and Inequality in Healthcare: Trends and Progress
Angelo Giardino and Robert Sanborn
Issue Editor's Point of View
“It Takes a (Healthy) Village to Raise a Child:” A Case for Integrating Public Health and Social Work Research to Eliminate Health Disparities
Heather H. Goltz
Articles
A Novel Bioinformatic Approach to Understanding Addiction
Latifa F. Jackson
Gender Differences and the Impact of Exposure to Violence on Depressive Symptoms and Sleep Habits among Young African American Adults
Forough Saadatmand ., Roderick Harrison, Jennifer Bronson, Deanna Crouse, Monica Jackson, and Mark Johnson
Predictors of Obesity In African American College Students
Christiana Chinenye Osuagwu
Preferred health information sources: An examination of vulnerable middle-aged and older women
Caroline D. Bergeron, Marcia Ory, Heather H. Goltz, Samuel D. Towne Jr, SangNam Ahn, Nelda Mier, and Matthew Lee Smith
Taking what we have and making what we need: Utilizing Natural Helping Support Networks to decrease self directed violence among Adolescents of Color.
LaDrea Ingram and Vanessa Drew-Branch
Use of Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Spanish Adults (SAHLSA-50) to Determine the Health Literacy Rate of the Spanish-speaking Population in an Urban Emergency Department
Dick Kuo M.D., Sheetal Thaker, Martin Duncan, Michael Puente, Sonia Parra, Ashley Rider, Kelsey Horter, and Malford T. Pillow
Geospatial distribution and population substructure of subgroups of US ethnic minorities: implications for perpetuation of health disparities and paucity of precision medicine
Hasan Jackson and Fatimah L.C. Jackson
Illness Severity among Non-English, Non-Spanish Speaking Patients in a Public Emergency Department
Malford T. Pillow M.D., M.Ed.; Thomas Ence M.D.; Tyler Dirvonas M.D.; William F. Peacock M.D.; and Dick Kuo M.D.
Invited Commentary
The Need for Culturally-Based Palliative Care Programs for African American Patients at End-of-life
Ronit Elk
