Comprehensive Health Disparities Links

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National:

* Summary of Unequal Treatment Report (PDF)
* Unequal Treatment One Year Later (PDF)
* The Children’s Policy Initiative Report, Language Access: Helping Non-English Speakers Navigate Health and Human Services (PDF)
* Community Solutions to Health Disparities Database
* Erasing the Color Line: Philanthropy’s Role in Eliminating Health Disparities
* Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care (PDF)
* Health Disparities and the Law: Wrongs in Search of a Right
* Health Disparities Among Older Immigrants to U.S. (PDF)
* Health Disparities and the Law: Wrongs in Search of a Right
* National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
* Poll: Americans Speak Out on Disparities in Health Care (PDF)
* Reducing Health Disparities Through a Focus on Communities (PDF)
* Report on Disparities in Asthma

* The Right to Equal Treatment by Physicians for Human Rights
* Surgeon General’s Commitment to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (PDF)
* Why the Difference: Initiative to Raise Physician Awareness About Disparities in Medical Care

Regional Reports:

* The California Endowment’s Survey of California Immigrants on Health Care Issues, Bridging Language Barriers in Health Care (PDF)
* California Commitment to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health (PDF)

Massachusetts:

* Boston Public Health Commission Report on Local Disparities
* A State Policy Agenda to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (PDF)
* The Kaiser Family Foundation Massachusetts Public Health Profile

* Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Office of Multicultural Health
* Massachusetts Quick Facts from the U.S. Census Bureau
* Massachusetts Publications on Health Disparities
* The Self Sufficiency Standard for Massachusetts (PDF)