Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and Answers

Issue Brief
  1. “Disparities” Healthy People 2020. Available from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Disparities

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  2. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States; Baciu A, Negussie Y, Geller A, et al., editors. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2017 Jan 11. 2, The State of Health Disparities in the United States. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425844/.

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  3. Health Coverage of Immigrants, (Washington, DC: KFF, February 2019), https://www.kff.org/disparities-policy/fact-sheet/health-coverage-of-immigrants/.

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  4. Samantha Artiga, Katherine Young, Elizabeth Cornachione, and Rachel Garfield, The Role of Language in Health Care Access and Utilization for Insured Hispanic Adults, (Washington, DC: KFF, November 2015), https://www.kff.org/disparities-policy/issue-brief/the-role-of-language-in-health-care-access-and-utilization-for-insured-hispanic-adults/.

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  5. Gordon P Nancy, Lin Y Teresa, Rau Jyoti, and Lo C Joan. “Aggregation of Asian-American subgroups masks meaningful differences in health and health risks among Asian ethnicities: an electronic health record based cohort study,” BMC Public Health 1551 (19) (2019) Available from: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7683-3

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  6. Institute of Medicine (US). How Far Have We Come in Reducing Health Disparities? Progress Since 2000: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2012. 2, What Progress in Reducing Health Disparities Has Been Made?: A Historical Perspective. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK114236/.

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  7. Bor Jacob, Cohen Gregory, Galea Sandro, “Population health in an era of rising income inequality: USA, 1980-2015,” The Lancet 10077(389) (April 2017):1475-1490, Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)30571-8/fulltext.

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