Office for Civil Rights
Health Disparities/Nondiscriminatory Quality Health Care
- OCR Promising Practices: Grassroots Outreach Efforts to Reach African American Communities about Health Disparities, Race Discrimination, and Title VI
- OCR Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities PowerPoint Presentation [PPT - 473KB]
- OCR Fact Sheet: Know Your Civil Rights and Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
- OCR information and resources on National Origin Discrimination, Limited English Proficiency and Disability
- 45 CFR Part 80 -Nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin
- In 2002, the Institute of Medicine released a report entitled: Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. The report concluded that a comprehensive, multilevel strategy is needed to eliminate health disparities.
- A survey by The Commonwealth Fund, Diverse Communities, Common Concerns: Assessing Health Care Quality for Minority Americans, reports that on a wide range of health care quality measures, minority Americans do not fare as well as whites and that they face several barriers to access to care. March 2002
- "Closing the Health Gap" campaign supports HHS' efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities and the goals of Healthy People 2010, the nation's prevention agenda for improving public health. A special telephone number and web site address aid callers in receiving campaign information and material. The "Closing the Health Gap" hotline number is 1-800-444-6472. The web address is: http://omhrc.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=2840. Also, in November 2001, HHS and ABC Radio Networks launched an education campaign to "Close the African-American Health Gap"
- Office of Minority Health Fact Sheet: "Closing the Health Gap"
- Office of Minority Health
- HHS Office of Minority Health Bridinging the Health Gap Through Culturaly Competent Continuing Education Programs (July 2007)
- CDC's Office of Minority Health (OMH)
- Excellence Centers To Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities (EXCEED)
- Health Information for Specific Racial and Ethnic Populations
- HHS' Healthy People 2010
- Indian Health Service
- Minority Health Research
- Minority Women's Health
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Minority Health Program
Office of the Surgeon General - Supplement to Surgeon General’s Mental Health Report: Culture, Race, Ethnicity
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Last revised: May 19, 2008
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