Social Determinants of Health & Health Disparities: Health and Health Care Disparities

The Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care. Under the law, a new “Patient’s Bill of Rights” gives the American people the stability and flexibility they need to make informed choices about their health.

Has a special section on minority health

Finding Answers manages an $8 million grant portfolio that funds program evaluations in 33 health care organizations across the country. They evaluate a variety of intervention strategies in different health care settings to find out what works—and what does not—to improve care.

Healthy People 2020 assess health disparities in the U.S. population by tracking rates of illness, death, chronic conditions, behaviors, and other types of outcomes in relation to demographic factors including Race and ethnicity, Gender, Sexual identity and orientation. Disability status or special health care needs, and Geographic location (rural and urban).

A source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public to inform young people to improve their health or the general public to understand the health reform law.

Provides links to health information from the National Institutes of Health and other federal government agencies as well as health information from non-government Web sites.

Tools for measuring health care quality, including the National Healthcare Disparities and Quality Reports, AHRQ Quality Indicators, and ambulatory clinical performance measures.

Health and human service organizations are recognizing the need to enhance services for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare services requires an understanding of cultural competence. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.

Resources section has useful links on reports and data

Policy and data section includes minority population profiles