Eliminating Health Disparities:

Measurement and Data Needs

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Publication Year:2004

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Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnic Data, Michele Ver Ploeg and Edward Perrin, Editors, National Research Council
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Disparities in health and health care across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States are well documented. The reasons for these disparities are, however, not well understood. Current data available on race, ethnicity, SEP, and accumulation and ...
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Front Matter	i-xvi
Executive Summary	1-13	(skim)
1 Introduction	14-20	(skim)
2 The Importance of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation in Understanding Disparities in Health and Health Care	21-40	(skim)
3 Measuring Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation	41-61	(skim)
4 DHHS Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use	62-82	(skim)
5 State-Based Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use	83-98	(skim)
6 Private-Sector Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use	99-117	(skim)
References	118-128	(skim)
Appendix A Descriptions of National Health and Health Care Surveys	129-178	(skim)
Appendix B Workshop on Improving Racial and Ethnic Data in Health	179-183	(skim)
Appendix C Recommendations on the Use of Socioeconomic Position Indicators to Better Understand Racial Inequalities in Health	184-201	(skim)
Appendix D The Role of Racial and Ethnic Data Collection in Eliminating Disparities in Health Care	202-231	(skim)
Appendix E State Collection of Racial and Ethnic Data	232-248	(skim)
Appendix F Collection of Data on Race and Ethnicity by Private-Sector Organizations: Hospitals, Health Plans, and Medical Groups	249-271	(skim)
Appendix G Racial and Ethnic Data Collection by Health Plans	272-287	(skim)
Appendix H Biographical Sketches	288-294	(skim)

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Disparities in health and health care across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States are well documented. The reasons for these disparities are, however, not well understood. Current data available on race, ethnicity, SEP, and accumulation and language use are severely limited. The report examines data collection and reporting systems relating to the collection of data on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic position and offers recommendations.

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