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    Challenges To Using A Business Case For Addressing Health Disparities
    (2008) Lurie, Nicole; Somers, Stephen A.; Fremont, Allen; Angeles, January; Murphy, Erin K.; Hamblin, Allison
    The authors consider the challenges to quantifying both the business case and the social case for addressing disparities, which is central to achieving equity in the U.S. health care system. They describe the practical and methodological challenges faced by health plans exploring the business and social cases for undertaking disparity-reducing interventions. Despite these challenges, sound business and quality improvement principles can guide health care organizations seeking to reduce disparities. Place-based interventions may help focus resources and engage health care and community partners who can share in the costs of—and gains from—such efforts.
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    Disparities And Quality Improvement: Federal Policy Levers
    (2005) Lurie, Nicole; Jung, Minna; Lavizzo-Mourey, Risa
    Using a quality improvement framework to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care highlights multiple opportunities for federal and state governments to exert policy leverage, particularly through their roles as purchasers and regulators. Under such a framework, federal and state governments can expand their roles in collecting race/ethnicity data; define universal and meaningful race/ethnicity categories; more broadly disseminate standards for cultural competence; and demand the reduction of disparities through leveraging their status as collectively the largest U.S. health care payer.