Michigan State University Library
Use the MSU Main Library's homepage or the Clinical Center Library as your starting point to gain access to the many different databases available to students, faculty and staff of MSU. Consult with a Librarian for questions and instruction in the use of, for example, Electronic Reference Library Databases or Connect to MAGIC

Health Finder
Just for You: Minority Health
Healthfinder® is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

Just for You: Minority Health http://www.healthfinder.gov/justforyou/minority/default.htm
This section of healthfinder® is co-sponsored by the Office of Minority Health Resource Center (OMH-RC), a service of the Office of Minority Health. OMH-RC facilitates the exchange of information and strategies to improve the health status of racial and ethnic minorities, and provides consumers and professionals with health information specific to American Indian and Alaska Native, African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Hispanic populations

National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine provides its MEDLINE database of more than 11 million references to articles published in 4300 biomedical journals on the World Wide Web so that you can conduct your own research concerning medical topics. Start at the home page of the National Library of Medicine, click on "Health Information" at the top of the page, and then select MEDLINE from the list of options. This will take you to a description of web-based search tool -- PubMed, with links to each search page.

The MEDLINE database is used to find references to journal articles on a specific medical topic. MEDLINE includes abstracts if published but does not contain the full text of the articles. In addition to the bibliographic citations with abstracts, the PubMed system has links to some publishers' Internet pages that provide full texts of the articles. Note most publishers charge a fee for obtaining the full text of an article and not all publishers have web sites. Med has online help.

You can use the following Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms to search MEDLINE for references on minority health, simply input in the the search window, any of these words/group of words:
Minority Groups
Ethnic Groups OR a specific ethnic group such as Aborigines, Arabs, Asian Americans, Blacks, Eskimos, Gypsies, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans, Indians, Central American Indians, North American Indians, South American Indians, Jews, Whites.

The subheading Ethnology [sh] is also available to use with disease terms or other selected terms for ethnic, cultural, anthropological, or racial aspects. Geographic headings are used with the subheading to indicate the place of origin of a group of people living outside their native land, e.g., New York City Cubans = CUBA/ethnology.

NLM's MEDLINEplus, a consumer health information resource, has the following listed under the topic "Population Groups." Population Groups Topics are Adolescent Health (see Teen Health), African American Health, Aging (see Seniors' Health - General) Arctic Health (see Native American Health), Asian American Health, Children's Health, Hispanic American Health, Men's Health (General), Native American Health, Pediatrics (see Children's Health), Seniors' Health (General), Teen Health, Tribal Health (see Native American Health), Women's Health (General).

Health Sciences Library System Minority Health & Cultural Diversity
This site links to resources covering a wide variety of minority health-related topics, including links to information about specific diseases, conditions and clinical specialties, as well as administrative and technical topics related to health and medicine. Other links include Internet Guides Internet Sites Organizations, Associations, and Agencies Consumer Health Information Databases Dictionaries, Directories, and Encyclopedias Electronic Newsletters and Journals.

Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research
The National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Nursing Research, and the Office of Research in Minority Health created a program to decrease the minority/non-minority differential in health and its social sequelae for older people by focusing research upon health promotion, disease prevention, and disability prevention. To meet this long-range goal, the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, or RCMARs, has a research infrastructure built around four objectives:
· To establish a mechanism for mentoring researchers for careers in research on the health of minority elders;
· To enhance diversity in the professional workforce conducting research on the health of minority elders;
· To evaluate/develop measurement tools tailored to minority aging population and;
· To develop and deploy strategies for recruiting and retaining older minority group members in epidemiological, psychosocial, and/or biomedical research.

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