Eliminating Health Disparities

Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnic Data, Michele Ver Ploeg and Edward Perrin, Editors, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 The Importance of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation in Understanding Disparities in Health and Health Care; 5 3 Measuring Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation; 6 4 DHHS Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use; 7 5 State-Based Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use; 8 6 Private-Sector Collection of Data on Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Position, and Acculturation and Language Use; 9 References; 10 Appendix A Descriptions of National Health and Health Care Surveys; 11 Appendix B Workshop on Improving Racial and Ethnic Data in Health; 12 Appendix C Recommendations on the Use of Socioeconomic Position Indicators to Better Understand Racial Inequalities in Health; 13 Appendix D The Role of Racial and Ethnic Data Collection in Eliminating Disparities in Health Care; 14 Appendix E State Collection of Racial and Ethnic Data; 15 Appendix F Collection of Data on Race and Ethnicity by Private-Sector Organizations: Hospitals, Health Plans, and Medical Groups; 16 Appendix G Racial and Ethnic Data Collection by Health Plans; 17 Appendix H Biographical Sketches