Health Disparities Resources

Disparities and Related Content Websites

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Minority Health page
• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
• Kaiser Family Foundation — Minority Health
• National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
• National Minority Health Month
• County Health Rankings

Disparities Reports and Resources

• HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (.pdf)
• New Policy Brief Explores Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• CDC's First Periodic Health Disparities & Inequalities Report — United States, 2011
• AHRQ National Healthcare Disparities Report (.pdf)
• Free CDC brochures and handouts
• Kaiser Family Foundation Issue brief on Health Reform and Communities of Color: Implications for Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (.pdf)
• What is a Health Disparity? (.pdf)
• Moving toward Health Equity: Health Reform Creates a Foundation for Eliminating Disparities (.pdf)

Disparities in the News

• Breast cancer toll among black women fed in part by fear, silence (Washington Post, March 2, 2012)
• Hospitals find success in slashing health disparities; Cultural competency training is among the efforts that boost care quality for minority patients. (American Medical News, March 16, 2012)
• Agenda for Fighting Disparities (Health Affairs October issue)
• Achieving Equity in Health (Health Affairs brief on health disparities)
• Disparities Cloud Health Improvements In Past Decade, Report Finds (Healthy People 2010 Report)
• Poor women get more unneeded breast cancer surgery (Chicago Tribute, Sept. 19, 2011)
• October Monthly Report on Minority Health (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• U.S. quality improvement steady, but progress on disparities elusive (American Medical News, March 14, 2011)
• The Great Divide — Why racial disparities in health care persist (Newsweek, Feb. 15, 2010)
• Cancer Screening Rate Trails Among Blacks in Bay Area (Wall Street Journal, Jan. 20, 2011)

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