Office for Civil Rights

Health Disparities/Nondiscriminatory Quality Health Care

• 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" 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://www.healthgap.omhrc.gov. Also, in November 2001, HHS and ABC Radio Networks launched an education campaign to "Close the African-American Health Gap"
• Fact Sheet
• Office of Minority Health
  • Office of Minority Health Resource Center
  • HHS Policies on Racial and Ethnic Data (Also Links to Office of Management and Budget Bulletins)
• CDC's Office of Minority Health (OMH)
  • CDC’s Fact Sheet on Racial Ethnic Disparities (April 2, 2004)
• 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 Library of Medicine, Asian American Health
• National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
• National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research web site on Health Disparities
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences Minority Programs
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

National Cancer Institute

• Cancer Control and Populations Science
• Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD)

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

Last revised: April 16, 2004

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