Office for Civil Rights
Health Disparities/Nondiscriminatory Quality Health Care
Medical School Education and Civil Rights Laws: Collaboration Between OCR, the National Consortium for Multicultural Education, and NIH’s Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): In partnership with the National Consortium for Multicultural Education, which is funded by NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), OCR has created a world-class curriculum on cultural competency in medicine and compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits recipients of Federal financial assistance from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin. This curriculum is intended to help protect the public’s civil rights and reduce disparities in health care by educating medical students, physicians and other health professionals on their civil rights obligations under Title VI. Read more...
- 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: October 27, 2008
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