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Category Archives: Health Care Disparities
Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center: Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations Advancing Health Equity
Since 2012, Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) have integrated activities to advance health equity as part of the state’s innovative model of health system and payment transformation. This report reviews CCO Transformation and Quality Strategy Reports and progress reports submitted … Continue reading
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National Quality Forum: Roadmap for Promoting Health Equity and Eliminating Disparities
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has issued a Roadmap for Promoting Health Equity and Eliminating Disparities. Despite overall improvements in public health and medicine, disparities in health and healthcare persist. Disparities are differences caused by inequities that are linked to … Continue reading
Posted in Demographic Data, Health Care Disparities, Health Care Disparities: Effective Interventions, Health Care Disparities: The Evidence of Disparities, Health Care Reform: Advancing Equity, Health Care Reform: Payment Reform, Health Care Reform: Quality Improvement, Health Status Disparities, Social Determinants of Health
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Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center: Opportunities for Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations to Advance Health Equity
This report summarizes the work to date and identifies future opportunities for Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) to advance health equity as part of their health system transformation activities. CCOs are obligated to identify and pursue opportunities to advance health … Continue reading
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National Quality Forum: Request for Comments on Draft Report on Healthcare Disparities Measurement
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has released a draft report, A Roadmap to Reduce Health and Healthcare Disparities through Measurement. The report was developed by NQF Standing Committee on Disparities, and was funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid … Continue reading
Office for Minority Health: Compendium of State-Level Activities and Legislation on National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) has published a compendium of state-sponsored activities and an interactive map listing state legislative activities implementing its National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS). … Continue reading
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Mapping Medicare Disparities
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health has published an interactive Mapping Medicare Disparities tool. Chronic diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, pose a significant problem in the United States, and disproportionately affect racial and ethnic … Continue reading
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Ensuring the Well-Being of Boys and Young Men of Color
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has published several resources to prevent substance use and misuse among boys and young men of color. The first tool reviews the literature and identifies (1) factors that have been shown to either protect boys and … Continue reading
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California Pan-Ethnic Health Network: Taking a Bite of Oral Health Inequities
This issue brief from the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network describes inequities in oral health for racial and ethnic populations, and makes recommendations to reduce those disparities. Poverty, food insecurity, lack of access to healthier food, and lack of access to … Continue reading
Institute of Medicine: Achieving Health Equity via the Affordable Care Act
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities has published a summary of a 2013 workshop on achieving health equity via the Affordable Care Act. Here is the agenda for the workshop: … Continue reading
Institute of Medicine: Framing the Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity to Advance Health Equity
The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, in coordination with the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, conducted a workshop on February 4, 2016 on framing the dialogue on race and ethnicity … Continue reading