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 Health Disparities
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Healthcare disparities refer to differences in access to or availability of facilities and services. Health status disparities refer to the variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between socioeconomic and/or geographically defined population groups. [Both definitions are from the 2009 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).]
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Health Data Interactive
- (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS))
- Tables with national health statistics for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and patterns.
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Health Disparities Resources for Researchers
- (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))
- Lists links to resources for researchers of health disparities. Incldues instruments and questionnaires, surveys, various studies, and links to health disparities reports.
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Healthy People 2010
- (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC (NCHS))
- Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. Since 1979, Healthy People has set and monitored national health objectives to meet a broad range of health needs, encourage collaborations across sectors, guide individuals toward making informed health decisions, and measure the impact of our prevention activity. Currently, Healthy People 2010 is leading the way to achieve increased quality and years of healthy life and the elimination of health disparities.
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HRET Disparities Toolkit
- (Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET))
- Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.
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Minority Aging
- (Administration on Aging (AOA) U.S.)
- Provides information on minority elders in the United States.
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National Health Plan Collaborative Toolkit
- (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))
- The National Health Plan Collaborative has created this toolkit of resources, lessons, best practices and case studies to help other health plans join the effort to reduce disparities.
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National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
- (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- Online query system that allows you to access national and state data on the quality of, and access to, health care from scientifically credible measures and data sources.
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Surveillance Research: Health Disparities
- (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))
- Provides links to the following types of information: statistics by race/ethnicity, network for cancer control research among AI/AN populations, socioeconomic status and cancer, Native American initiatives, cancer in women of color monograph, status of cancer surveillance in minority and underserved populations, and SEER expansion.
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The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program
- (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF))
- Brings talented college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, D.C., where they are placed in congressional offices and learn about health policy issues, with a focus on issues affecting racial and ethnic minority and underserved communities.
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The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy
- (Commonwealth Fund, Harvard Medical School US)
- The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship Program in Minority Health Policy is a one-year, full-time program designed to create physician-leaders who will pursue careers in minority health and health policy. Based at Harvard Medical School under the direction of Joan Reede, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., dean for diversity and community partnership, the fellowship combines an intensive year of training in health policy, public health, and management with special program activities on minority health issues. Applicants complete academic work for a master's degree in public health or public administration.
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Hispanic Health Services Research Grant Program
- (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS))
- The purpose of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hispanic Grant Program is to implement Hispanic American health services research activities to meet the needs of diverse CMS beneficiary populations.
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Training for Minority Researchers
- (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))
- Describes National Cancer Institute training and career development opportunities available to minority individuals interested in pursuing cancer research careers in basic, clinical, prevention and population control sciences.
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Community Health Indicators for the Washington Metropolitan Region
- (Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) USA)
- Report highlights some health problems in the Washington area and indicates that health can differ quite dramatically depending upon where one lives in the region. Race and ethnicity, education and income, family history and early life experience, even the neighborhoods and homes in which people live are important factors in determining health. These factors are collectively referred to as the social determinants of health.
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Glossary of Health Care Quality Terms
- (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))
- A glossary of key terms in the fields of health care quality, disparities reduction and quality improvement.
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Health Behavior News Service
- (Center for Advancing Health USA)
- Disseminates news stories on the latest findings from peer-reviewed research journals. HBNS covers both new studies and systematic reviews of studies on (1) the effects of behavior on health, (2) health disparities data and (3) patient engagement research.
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Health Disparities Defined
- (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))
- Provides access to several definitions and a link to NCI health disparities research.
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National Healthcare Disparities Report
- (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- Tracks disparities in both quality of and access to health care in the United States for both the general population and for AHRQ's congressionally designated priority populations.
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National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): Substance Use Treatment Need and Receipt among Hispanics
- (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA))
- Nearly 8.3 percent of all Americans of Hispanic origin ages 12 or over were classified as needing treatment in the past year for alcohol disorders according to a new national study. The SAMHSA also reveals that only 7.7 percent of these over 2.6 million Hispanic Americans with drinking disorders received the help they needed at a specialty treatment facility.
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Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
- (National Academies)
- Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may contribute to inequities in care; and recommend policies and practices to eliminate these inequities. This is the resulting report from the IOM study.
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AHRQ - Minority Health
- (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- Links to AHRQ's minority health programs, reports, workshops, etc.
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Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
- (Health Services Research and Development Service, Veterans Administration (HSR&D))
- An HSR&D Center of Excellence whose mission is to reduce disparities and promote equity in health and health care among vulnerable groups of veterans and other populations.
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Center on Health Disparities
- (Adventist Health Care US)
- The center has three areas of focus: increased services for underserved populations; a research program to identify and promote best practices; and an education initiative to improve the ability of caregivers to provide quality care to those populations.
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Institute of Medicine (IOM) - Minority Health
- (National Academies)
- Links to current projects, events, and reports concerning minority health as well as information about the work IOM has done in the area of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
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National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- (National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH (NCMHD) USA, National Institutes of Health (NIH))
- The mission of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this effort NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities.
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New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)
- (New York Academy of Medicine)
- NYAM has been advancing the health of people in cities since 1847. An independent organization, NYAM addresses the health challenges facing the world's urban populations through interdisciplinary approaches to innovative research, education, community engagement and policy leadership. Drawing on the expertise of diverse partners worldwide and more than 2,000 elected Fellows from across the professions, our current priorities are to create environments in cities that support healthy aging; to strengthen systems that prevent disease and promote the public's health; and to implement interventions that eliminate health disparities. Provides New York City and New York State health and community data resources.
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Office of Minority Health (OMH)
- (Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S.)
- The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. Detailed information on cultural competency can be found on this site.
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Commonwealth Fund Health Care Disparities
- The goals of the program are to improve the overall quality of health care delivered to low-income and minority Americans, and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. The program builds on efforts to improve quality of care overall in the United States, focusing on safety-net hospitals and ambulatory care providers serving large numbers of low-income and minority patients.
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Disparities in Mental Health Services Research
- (National Institute of Mental Health, NIH (NIMH))
- This program plans, stimulates, disseminates, and supports research on the complex factors that influence disparities in mental health services, particularly across special population groups such as racial and ethnic groups, as well as women and children, and persons living in rural and frontier areas.
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Hispanic Elders Learning Network
- (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))
- Links to a slide presentation on Reducing Health Disparities Among Hispanic Elders: Lessons from a Learning Network.
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Kellogg Health Scholars Program
- (W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) U.S.)
- Two-year postdoctoral fellowship program invites applicants to join a growing cadre of leaders skilled in research on the social determinants of health, academic-community partnering, community-based participatory research, and application of research to strengthen advocacy and achieve policy change.
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MD Anderson Cancer Center Program in Health Outcomes
- (University of Texas US)
- Epidemiologic studies of the outcomes of treatments and care strategies in large representative populations are the cornerstone of the program. Racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in outcomes are an important focus of this program.
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Today's Topics in Health Disparities: Webcasts
- (Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) US)
- The Kaiser Family Foundation presents a series of live, interactive webcasts devoted to addressing a range of issues relating to health and health care disparities in the United States. Each discussion features a panel of experts tackling current issues in health disparities and answering questions from webcast viewers. Link to prior webcasts.
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- (Families USA)
- Presents data on the uninsured, which reveal racial and ethnic disparities in health coverage.
