Disparities in Healthcare

Healthcare disparities refer to differences in access to or availability of facilities and services. Health status disparities refer to the variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between socioeconomic and/or geographically defined population groups.

Resources & Tools

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Reflecting on My Mom’s Death: Moving Toward A More Complex Understanding of Health, Disability, And Dying

Story - Original

Brought to you by Community Commons

Published on 03/28/2023

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Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health

Resource - Journal Article

Brought to you by AMA

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Blueprint for Positive Change 2020

Resource - Policy Brief

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What Are Health Disparities and Health Equity? We Need to Be Clear

Resource - Journal Article

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Uprooting the Structural Drivers of Health Inequity

Resource - Webinar

Brought to you by ChangeLab Solutions

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Raising the Bar

Resource - Website/webpage

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Affordable Housing Investment: A Guide for Nonprofit Hospitals and Health Systems

Resource - Guide/handbook

Brought to you by Urban Institute

Published on 08/08/2019

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To Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Child Health Care, More Needs to be Addressed Than Just Social Determinants

Resource - Journal Article

Brought to you by Elsevier, Inc.

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Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black People

Resource - Journal Article

Brought to you by AMA

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Stress and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk for Indigenous Populations throughout the Lifespan

Resource - Journal Article

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Public Health Is Missing Crucial Data on LGBTQIA+ People. It’s Not Hard To Collect.

Resource

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Personal Experiences of U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Today’s Difficult Times

Resource - Report

Brought to you by RWJF

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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People

Resource - Report

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180 Organizations Call for Routine LGBTQI+ Health Data Collection

Resource - Journal Article

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LGBTQ-Inclusive Data Collection: A Lifesaving Imperative

Resource - Report

Brought to you by Human Rights Campaign

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Kidney Disease Health Disparities

Resource - Website/webpage

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Children Without Health Insurance by Race and Ethnicity in the United States

Resource - Data Bank/repository

Brought to you by Annie E. Casey Foundation

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Financial Instability and Delays in Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Due to COVID-19

Resource - Journal Article

Brought to you by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

PDF Article Cover: Provider Bias In Contraceptive Counseling

Provider Bias in Contraceptive Counseling

Resource - Journal Article

PDF Cover: Improved Data Collection for Our LGBTQ Population is Needed to Improve Health Care and Reduce Health Disparities

Improved Data Collection for Our LGBTQ Population is Needed to Improve Health Care and Reduce Health Disparities

Resource - Journal Article

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Improving Rural Oral Healthcare Access

Resource - Policy Brief

Brought to you by NRHA

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Reproductive Life Goals: A Systematic Review of Pregnancy Planning Intentions, Needs, and Interventions Among Women Involved in U.S. Criminal Justice Systems

Resource - Journal Article

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Trinity Talks: The History and Reality of Health Equity

Resource - Webinar

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Barriers to Equity in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care

Resource - Website/webpage

Brought to you by CDC

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Electronic health records as an equity tool for LGBTQIA+ people

Resource - Journal Article

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LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center

Resource - Website/webpage

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U.S. Health Care Can’t Afford Health Inequities

Resource - Assessment

First page of Prevention Science and Health Equity: A Comprehensive Framework for Preventing Health Inequities and Disparities Associated with Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class journal article

Prevention Science and Health Equity: A Comprehensive Framework for Preventing Health Inequities and Disparities Associated with Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class

Resource - Journal Article

Brought to you by Springer

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Phase 3.2 of Census Bureau Survey Questions Now Include SOGI, Child Tax Credit, COVID Vaccination of Children

Resource - Journal Article

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State-level Data Show Schools Can Facilitate LGBTQ Students’ Access to Relevant Physical Health Services

Resource - Report

First page of Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs About Biological Differences Between Blacks and Whites

Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs About Biological Differences Between Blacks and Whites

Resource - Journal Article

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Native Americans Feel Invisible In U.S. Health Care System

Resource - Blog

Brought to you by NPR

Addressing Disparities in Diagnostic Errors & Medication Safety in the Home

Addressing Disparities in Diagnostic Errors & Medication Safety in the Home

Resource - Report

Brought to you by Massachusetts General Hospital (d/b/a General Hospital Corporation)

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How Abolition of Race-Based Medicine Is Necessary to American Health Justice

Resource - Journal Article

Brought to you by AMA

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Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda

Resource - Policy Brief

PDF Cover page: Dental Disparities Among Low-Income American Adults: A Social Worker Perspective

Dental Disparities among Low-Income American Adults: A Social Work Perspective

Resource - Journal Article

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Racial Disparities in Stroke Incidence and Death

Story - Written

Brought to you by NIH

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Bearing the Burden: How racism-related stress hurts America’s black mothers and babies

Story - Original

Brought to you by Community Commons

Published on 10/02/2018

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The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations

Story - Audio

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Data Shows Racial Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Between Black and White Research Study Participants

Story - Written

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Commons Good Podcast: Debra Oto-Kent and Barbara Masters, Build Healthy Places Network Partners

Story - Audio

Brought to you by Community Initiatives

Published on 03/13/2022

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Healthcare and Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Story - Original

Brought to you by Community Commons

Published on 03/19/2020

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When a Steady Paycheck Is Good Medicine

Story - Written

Brought to you by NYT

Published on 10/10/2019

Who Are the Uninsured?

Story - Written

Brought to you by Community Commons

Published on 10/04/2017

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Hypertension, Race, and Ethnicity: Decreasing the Disparities

Story - Original

Brought to you by Community Commons

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This Is the Stimulus We Need Right Now. It's Not $1,000 for Every American.

Story - Written

Brought to you by NYT

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Tribal Health: Reinvesting in the Indian Health Service

Story - Original

Brought to you by Community Commons

For Urban Poor, the Coronavirus Complicates Existing Health Risks

For Urban Poor, the Coronavirus Complicates Existing Health Risks

Story - Written

Brought to you by NYT

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The Racist History of Abortion and Midwifery Bans

Story - Written

Brought to you by ACLU

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ExploreMoHealth: An Example of How One State is Taking Health Data to the Next Level

Story - Original

Brought to you by Community Commons

Published on 04/10/2018

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Decades After Forced Sterilization, Native American Women in the US Still Face Rejection and Retraumatization in Healthcare

Story - Written

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

Tool

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LGBTQ Identity Document Laws and Policies

Tool - Data/mapping Tool

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Dental Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)

Tool - Data/mapping Tool

Engagement Tool and Resource Repository

Engagement Tool and Resource Repository

Tool

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Do Ask, Do Tell: A Toolkit for Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings

Tool - Toolkit/toolbox

Screenshot of cover photo: LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Index 2022

Healthcare Equality Index 2022

Tool - Data/mapping Tool

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Imagine Fox Cities: Well-Being Data Tool

Tool - Data/mapping Tool

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Rural Oral Health Toolkit

Tool - Toolkit/toolbox

Data & Metrics

HPSA Find

Dataset

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