Key Resources on Health Disparities

Key Resources on Health Disparities Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2010. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr10.htm Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: New York Dashboard on Health Care Quality Compared to
All States -2010:
http://statesnapshots.ahrq.gov/snaps10/dashboard.jsp?menuId=4&state=NY&level=0
Assuring Health Equity for Minority Persons with Disabilities A STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES AND RECOMMENDATIONS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health (ACMH) http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/Assets/pdf/Checked/1/ACMHHealthDisparitiesReport.pdf American Public Health Association. Evaluating the Economic Causes and Consequences of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, November 2008. http://www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/EF3D92F8‐4758‐4E49‐85A1‐
D6EB8AD8CA89/0/Econ2_Disparities_Final.pdf Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, January 14, 2011. CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report — United States, 2011 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/su6001.pdf Commonwealth Fund. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook March 13, 2008, Volume 27 . Authors: Holly Mead, Ph.D., Lara Cartwright‐Smith, J.D., Karen Jones, M.S., Christal Ramos, Kristy Woods, M.D., M.P.H, and Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Chartbooks/2008/Mar/Racial‐and‐Ethnic‐
Disparities‐in‐U‐S‐‐Health‐Care‐‐A‐Chartbook.aspx Community Service Society. Promoting Equity & Quality in New York’s Public Insurance Programs http://www.cssny.org/userimages/downloads/Promoting_Equity_May2009.pdf Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Improving Data Collection to Reduce Health Disparities, June 2011. www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/disparities06292011a.html Department of Health and Human Services. Improving Data Collection for the LGBT Community Fact Sheet http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/assets/pdf/checked/1/Fact_Sheet_LGBT.pdf Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2011. http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/files/Plans/HHS/HHS_Plan_complete.pdf Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). July 2009 Recommendation report Ensuring That Health Care Reform Will Meet the Health Care Needs Of Minority Communities And Eliminate Health Disparities, Statement Of Principles And Recommendations. http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/Assets/pdf/Checked/1/ACMH_HealthCareAccessReport.pdf Healthy People 2020: Preparing for a New Decade. Geri Tebo. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, HHS. January 20, 2011 www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/shortage/Meetings/.../hlthppl20.ppt The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States, September 2003. www.jointcenter.org/research/the‐economic‐burden‐of‐
health‐inequalities‐in‐the‐united‐states Massachusetts General Hospital www.disparitiessolution.org New York State Department of Health. Chartbook on Disability in New York State, 2007 Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Disability and Health Program http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/prevent/chart/docs/2007_disability_chartbook.pdf New York State Department of Health. New York State Minority Health Surveillance Report. County Edition, December 2010. http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/community/minority/docs/surveillance_report_2010.
pdf New York State Department of Health. Prevention Agenda Toward the Healthiest State. www.health.ny.gov/prevention/prevention_agenda/ New York State Department of Health. Minority Health Data and Statistics http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/community/minority/ New York State Department of Health. New York State Community Health Data Set http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/chac/chds.htm New York State Office for Persons With Developmental Disabilities. Briefing Book – June 9, 2011. http://www.opwdd.ny.gov/2011_waiver/images/briefing_book_june_9_meeting.pdf Urban Institute. Estimating the Cost of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, September 22, 2009. www.urban.org/publications/411962.html Updated 9/14/11