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Health disparities are health differences between different groups of people. These health differences may include:
- How many people get certain diseases
- How severe the diseases are
- How many people have complications because of the diseases
- How many people die from a disease
- Whether people can get health care
- How many people get screened for a disease
These groups of people may be based on:
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Immigrant status
- Disability
- Sex or gender
- Sexual orientation
- Geography
- Income
- Level of education
NIH: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Disparities -- Healthy People 2020 (Department of Health and Human Services)
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How Sex and Gender Influence Health and Disease
(National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women's Health)
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Specifics
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Cancer Health Disparities Definitions and Examples
(National Cancer Institute)
- Disparities in HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Disparities in Oral Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Disparities in the Impact of Air Pollution (American Lung Association)
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health -- Healthy People 2020 (Department of Health and Human Services)
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Neglected Diseases
(National Human Genome Research Institute)
- Rural Health Disparities (Rural Health Information Hub)
Statistics and Research
- African American Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Behavioral Health Equity (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
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Cancer Care Widens Its Reach: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
(National Institutes of Health)
- Cancer Data and Statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Cancer Race/Ethnicity Statistics
(National Cancer Institute)
- Clinical Trial Diversity (Food and Drug Administration) Also in Spanish
- Indian Health Disparities (Indian Health Service)
- National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
- Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities: Selected CDC-Sponsored Interventions, United States, 2016 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- TB and Black or African American Persons (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Healthcare Disparities
(National Institutes of Health)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Racial and Ethnic Disparities
(National Institutes of Health)
Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
Find an Expert
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Also in Spanish
- Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
- Minority Health and Health Equity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities