Creating A State Minority Health Policy Report Card: An evaluation of states’ capacity to address racial and ethnic health disparities.

Trivedi, Amal N; Gibbs, Brian; Nsiah-Jefferson, Laurie; Ayanian, John Z; Prothrow-Stith, Deborah

Creating A State Minority Health Policy Report Card: An evaluation of states’ capacity to address racial and ethnic health disparities.

Publication or External Link

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.388?HITS=10&hits=10&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=H&RESULTFORMAT=&maxtoshow=&fulltext=Creating+a+state+minority+health+report+card%253A+An+evaluation+of+states%2592+capacity+&

Date

2005

Authors

Trivedi, Amal N

Gibbs, Brian

Nsiah-Jefferson, Laurie

Ayanian, John Z

Prothrow-Stith, Deborah

Citation

Trivedi, Amal N and Gibbs, Brian and Nsiah-Jefferson, Laurie and Ayanian, John Z and Prothrow-Stith, Deborah (2005) Creating A State Minority Health Policy Report Card: An evaluation of states’ capacity to address racial and ethnic health disparities. Health Affairs, 24 (2). pp. 388-396.

DRUM DOI

https://doi.org/10.13016/a0n5-jjgx

Abstract

A state minority health policy report card may provide an important tool for evaluating and promoting state policies to reduce health disparities. This study develops criteria that can form the basis of such a state report card and assesses the performance of all fifty states on these measures. The results indicate wide variation among states, with geographic region being a significant predictor of performance on all four measures. Future research should be conducted on other predictors of state variation in minority health policy and connections between state policy and health outcomes for minorities.