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Bookmark or Share- Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and Answers - KFFThis brief provides an introduction to what health and health care disparities are, why it is important to address disparities, the status of disparities today, recent federal actions to...
- Disparity Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe word is often used to describe a social or economic condition that's considered unfairly unequal: a racial disparity in hiring, a health disparity between the rich and the poor, an income disparity between men and women, and so on.
- Health Disparities | DASH | CDC - Centers for Disease Control and ...Health disparities are inequitable and are directly related to the historical and current unequal distribution of social, political, economic, and environmental resources. We can improve health risks and reduce disparities and inequities by addressing social determinants of health.
- 2 The State of Health Disparities in the United StatesIn this chapter the committee reviews the state of health disparities in the United States by race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, and disability status, highlighting populations that are disproportionately impacted by inequity.
- Minority Health and Health Disparities Definitions - NIMHDMinority Health Definition. Distinctive health characteristics and attributes of racial and/or ethnic minority populations who are socially disadvantaged due in part to being subject to racist or discriminatory acts and are underserved in health care.
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