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Using Report Cards to Measure Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: State Experience
Disparities | Measurement | System performance

State agencies identify, document, and act on data related to racial and ethnic health and health care disparities in various ways.  One type of document states produce is a “report card,” or a publication that uses data from race/ethnicity-specific measures to assign letter grades that rate the state's performance...

Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
September 2011
Using Geographic Information to Target Health Disparities: State Experience
Affordable Care Act | Disparities | race

This brief describes how two states, Rhode Island and Virginia, have used particular data collection techniques along with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze and map race and ethnicity data. Virginia uses GIS with multi-level spatial analysis, while Rhode Island uses GIS in conjunction with Community Based...

Larry Hinkle, Research Assistant
September 2011
Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities Through Health Care Reform: State Experience
Affordable Care Act | Disparities | Health reform

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) provides an opportunity for states to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. As states roll out health care reform implementation, they can use disparities data to inform their actions. This issue brief was prepared by NASHP for the Agency for...

Denise Osborn
Larry Hinkle, Research Assistant
August 2011
Assessing the Costs of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: State Experience
Cost containment | Health Disparities | State Health

Health disparities cost the United States billions of dollars in direct medical expenditures in addition to the human costs. In an effort to improve quality and contain costs states are taking steps to measure these costs and address disparities. This issue brief, which features Virginia and Rhode Island, was prepared by NASHP...

Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
Larry Hinkle, Research Assistant
June 2011
State Documentation of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities to Inform Strategic Action
ethnicity | health care | Measurement | race | research | System performance

This report, prepared by NASHP for the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, summarizes how leading states analyze state and federal race/ethnicity data in strategic plans and reports aimed at reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health status and health care. It features Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, New...

Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
January 2011