APHA Launces "Elimination of Health Disparities" National Public Health Week
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is sponsoring National Public Health Week "Eliminating Health Disparities: Communities Moving from Statistics to Solutions," an action devoted to eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care and access to health care.
In conjunction with campaign, APHA has issued "Call For Solutions", a nation-wide effort to collect and highlight a wide variety of innovative approaches to eliminating health care in an effort to inspire people to eliminate these disparities.
APHA encourages anyone who is working on health care disparity solutions in the field to visit www.apha.org and enter their solutions into the National Public Health Week 2004 database.
In addition, the APHA website on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities website www.apha.org/legislative/legislative/disparities.htm features information about racial and ethnic health disparities including:
In addition, there are fact sheets on disparities in cancer, environmental issues, gender, HIV/AIDS and other issues.
- APHA Policy Statements on Disparities
- Leave No One Behind: Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Life Expectancy
- APHA Action on Health Disparities
- Letter in Support of Increasing Indian Health Service Budget
The site also featues links to sources such as the Office of Minority Health Resource Center; CDC Fast Facts on Minority Health; Kaiser Foundations State Health Facts Online; United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerace; and many other important issues.
American Public Health Association can be reached at
800 I Street N.W.
Washington DC 2001-3710
phone: 202-777-APHA
fax: 202-777-2534
www.apha.org
