What is a "health disparity"?

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dc.contributor.authorCarter-Pokras, Olivia
dc.contributor.authorBaquet, Claudia
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:02:58Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:02:58Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractWith the launch of Healthy People 2010 in January 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) committed the nation to an overarching goal, to “eliminate health disparities.” Like the preceding Healthy People 2000 initiative, Healthy People 2010 outlines a comprehensive disease prevention and health promotion agenda. Although this goal has met with considerable support throughout the nation, upon further examination, it is clear that the term “health disparity” has been used with a number of very different meanings. Since the scope of the eliminating disparities goal for the DHHS Imitative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health is narrower than that of Healthy People 2010, discussion of the two goals in the same context can lead to confusion.
dc.description.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497467/?tool=pubmed
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/gxtc-1j2w
dc.identifier.citationCarter-Pokras, Olivia and Baquet, Claudia (2002) What is a "health disparity"? Public Health Reports, 117 (5). pp. 426-434.
dc.identifier.issn0033-3549
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 2689
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23356
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjecthealth disparities
dc.subjectinequality
dc.subjectinequity
dc.titleWhat is a "health disparity"?
dc.typeArticle

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