Health Disparities
Communities of Color are Disproportionately Affected

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•We need to sharpen and intensify our national focus on health disparities so we can close up -- if not eliminate -- the health status gaps in this country. The need to take action could not be more urgent.

•Since 1950, considerable gains in health status have been documented in the United States among racial and ethnic minority groups.

•However, racial disparities in health have changed little since then. In fact in many health areas, the statistics show that the gap has actually widened for some health indicators.

Source: “Slides for Judith.ppt”