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Resources

Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts for recommendations and ideas for centering equity in communication
PDF from the AMA.
CDC's Minority Health

ClinicalKey
Along with articles and ebooks, ClinicalKey also has a Patient Education filter/section that you can select and find Spanish materials.

Congressional District Health Dashboard
The Dashboard provides actionable measures of health and its drivers calculated at the congressional district level, showing users how their district is doing on health outcomes, social and economic factors, and more. The Congressional District Health Dashboard includes 36 metrics for all 435 U.S. Congressional Districts.

ERIC
The world’s largest source of educational abstracts and journal articles. Great for finding out what health promotion programs have been done preschool through Higher Education.

Health Information in Multiple Languages
Hosted by Medline Plus - get to various health topics' trusted information (listed A-Z) in many different languages.
Healthy People 2030 - Social Determinants of Health
Healthy People 2030 - Objectives
HHS's Minority Population Profiles

MedlinePlus
A consumer health information website from the National Library of Medicine, with most Patient Handouts available in Spanish.
National Eye Institute
Provided by the NIH, the National Eye Institute site provides research, data, and resources to eye healthcare professionals, as well as helpful and educational materials to consumers and communities.
PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine with over 21 million citations for bio-medical articles dating back to 1948. Excellent for finding evidence-based medicine articles and case studies.

Racial Disparities in Clinical Medicine - Group ebook from NEJM
Click to download a PDF copy of the free NEJM Group eBook.

UpToDate
Along with patient care information, UptoDate includes a Patient Education section under Contents with most materials available in Spanish too.
To use the mobile app, go to UpToDate through the library website and create an account. Then, go to your device's App Store and download the UpToDate App. Open the app and log in to the account you just created, and you will have free access to the app.

The MBKU Discovery search box will lead you to print books, ebooks, and articles on health equity topics to learn more and support your future patients.

This tool searches across several of our subscription databases and journals simultaneously.

The Healthy People 2030 objectives have been published and can be found on https://health.gov/healthypeople.

At this time, premade PubMed queries have not yet been created for each objective. But where objectives remain the same from 2020 to 2030, you can use the resource below to get the latest articles that relate to each objective.

Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries
Provides pre-made PubMed searches for each of the Healthy People 2020 objectives.
1. Click on the link, simply scroll down, and expand the last category for Vision.
2. Click on the “PubMed Search” icon next to the objective that you are interested in. It will automatically take you to a search results page in PubMed for that objective.

Expanded Vision Section