National Partnership for Action
“The mission of the National Partnership for Action is to mobilize and connect individuals and organizations across the country to create a Nation free of health disparities, with quality health outcomes for all people.”
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
“The mission of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this effort NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities.”
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
“For sixth years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.”
“Cu’s mission is to eliminate ethnic disparities by promoting grassroots outreach, education, and capacity building as well as advocationg for long term policy change.”
Racial and Ethnic Approach to Community Health (REACH)
“This is a program from the CDC that addresses health disparities through participatory based community programs that work to address social determinates of health through making policy, system and environmental changes.”
“Their Mission is to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level, to assure that comprehensive, culturally acceptable personal and public health services are available and accessible to American Indian and Alaska Native people and to uphold the Federal Government’s obligation to promote healthy American Indian and Alaska Native people, communities, and cultures and to honor and protect the inherent sovereign rights of Tribes.”
This page shows some of the unnatural things that cause health disparities. The specific page gives a list of ten things that contribute to disparities.
World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO is also looking at health equity although they have a much look at health disparities from a global angle I feel they are a good resource of looking at the different causes and determinate of health disparities. This site can also give a much broader view of the problems that are faced around the world and not just in the United States.
National Cancer Institute the National Cancer Institute has a center called, Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities. This center shows some of the different research there is about how cancer affects the poor or minorities more. It talks about what these disparities are, who is affected by them, and what different businesses are doing to research the disparities and alleviate them.
Kaiser’s Monthly Update on Health Disparities this site takes information from many different sources and complies it together to show what is going on in the way of health disparities. It is a good reasource for current information on health disparities and what is currently happening with them.
