Health Care Focused Resources

Online Resources and Collections

• 42 Mental Health & Addiction Recovery Resources to Support Black College Students
• AAPI Addiction & Mental Health Resources | Detox Local
  • The Rise of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
  • Mental Illness & Substance Abuse in the AAPI Community
  • AAPI Substance Abuse & Mental Health Resources
  • Youth Specific Resources
  • LGBTQ+ Resources
  • Mental Health & Advocacy
  • Online Mental Health Spaces
• Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month events-view the full list
  • Self-Care Mindfulness Meditation with Jonny Gerkin – Mondays, 12:15 – 12:40pm
  • Self-Care Mindfulness Meditation with Bree Kalb – Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00-4:30pm
  • Gentle Yoga with Gillings Culture of Health – Mondays 12:00 – 12:30pm
  • Inhaling Positivity Mid-Day Meditation – Wednesdays, 12:30-12:45pm
• Center for Mindful Self Compassion
  • MSC Circles of Practice
    • LGBTQI2S+ Affinity Practice Circle
    • Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Affinity Practice Circle
    • Hispanohablantes (Spanish Speaking) Practice Circle
• Latino/a Health for Health Care Providers
• Introduction to LGBTQ+ Competancy | Handbook for Physical Therapy
• LGBTQI Health Research & Practice
• LILACS, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature
• The UNC Center for Health Equity Research
  • Equity Resources
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health
  • Office of Minority Health Resource Center
  • OMHRC Knowledge Center Online Catalog

Books

• Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias (2nd ed) 
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonia Times to the Present by Harriet Washington  
• Black Man in a White Coat 
• Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality 
• Unmasking Racism in Health Care: Alive and Well 
• The Health Gap 
• Black & Blue 
• Small Great Things 
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 
• The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the struggle to transform America’s Healthcare System by David Barton Smith  

Articles

• The Associations of Clinicians’ Implicit Attitudes About Race With Medical Visit Communication and Patient Ratings of Interpersonal Care
• Centering Equity and Community in the Recovery of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Dealing with Racist Patients
• Doctors Overwhelmingly Harbor Negative Views Of Those With Disabilities, Study Finds
  • Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care. L. Iezzoni, S. Rao, J. Ressalam, D. Bolcic-Jankovic, N. Agaronnik, K. Donelan, T. Lagu, and E. Campbell. Health Affairs 2021 40:2, 297-306
• Do Words Matter? Stigmatizing Language and the Transmission of Bias in the Medical Record (Take care not to transmit bias in medical documentation) 
• Five Ways To Be an LGBTQ Patient Ally
• How we fail black patients in pain
• Opportunities for Improving Population Health in the Post–COVID-19 Era
• Role of hospitals in addressing social determinants of health: A groundwater approach
• Seven Resources To Inform Your Practice With LGBTQ+ Patients and Clients

Watch and/or Listen

• A Conversation On Health Inequity (UNC Health Foundation)
• Doctors’ Unconscious Bias Affects Quality Of Health Care Services, Research Shows (NPR)

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The JEDI Toolkit is a resource created by faculty members in the Health Sciences Department to provide guidance and recommendations to health care providers and educators who would like to learn more about equity and inclusion.