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Summary

Health disparities are health differences between different groups of people. These health differences may include:

• How many people get certain diseases
• How severe the diseases are
• How many people have complications because of the diseases
• How many people die from a disease
• Whether people can get health care
• How many people get screened for a disease

These groups of people may be based on:

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Immigrant status
• Disability
• Sex or gender
• Sexual orientation
• Geography
• Income
• Level of education

NIH: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Start Here

• Health Equity in Healthy People 2030 (Department of Health and Human Services)
• Understanding Influences of Sex and Gender in Health and Disease (National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women's Health)

Specifics

• Cancer Health Disparities Definitions and Examples (National Cancer Institute)
• Disparities in the Impact of Air Pollution (American Lung Association)
• Health Disparities in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Health Disparities in Oral Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• LGBT -- Healthy People 2030 (Department of Health and Human Services)
• Neglected Diseases (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• Rural Health Disparities (Rural Health Information Hub)
• The Truth About African American Women and Heart Disease (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF

Statistics and Research

• Behavioral Health Equity (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
• Cancer Care Widens Its Reach: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish
• Cancer Data and Statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Cancer Race/Ethnicity Statistics (National Cancer Institute)
• Clinical Trial Diversity (Food and Drug Administration) Also in Spanish
• Indian Health Disparities (Indian Health Service)
• National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Tuberculosis and Black or African American Persons (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Healthcare Disparities (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Racial and Ethnic Disparities (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

• Article: Rural-urban disparities in full antenatal care utilization among women in Ethiopia:...
• Article: Ethnic disparities and lifestyle determinants in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease...
• Article: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Perceived Health Status Among Patients With...
• Health Disparities -- see more articles

Find an Expert

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Also in Spanish
• Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
• Minority Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities