Background Literature
Please use the list below to learn more about cancer health disparities. CRCHD has identified these reports and publications as some of the most influential in the field of cancer health disparities. View a listing of CRCHD Staff and Grantee Publications and Reports and Select NCI Publications.
2006
- Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health: Unfinished Business, Institute of Medicine
2005
- Eliminating Health Disparities: Strengthening Data on Race, Ethnicity, Language in the U.S., National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics
- National Healthcare Disparities Report, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), DHHS
- National Healthcare Quality Report, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), DHHS
2004
- Making Cancer Health Disparities History, Trans-HHS Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group
- Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs, National Research Council of the National Academies
2003
- Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Institute of Medicine
2002
- Facing Cancer in Indian Country, President’s Cancer Panel
2001
- Report on Voices of a Broken System, President’s Cancer Panel
1999
- The Unequal Burden of Cancer, Institute of Medicine
- NCI’s Response Richard D. Klausner, M.D., Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, January 21, 1999
- NCI Response Fact Sheet
1989
- National Hearings on Cancer and the Poor, American Cancer Society
1986
- Report on Cancer in the Economically Disadvantaged – Freeman, American Cancer Society
1985
- Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
