Health Action 2008 Tool Kit: Minority Health

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The State of Opportunity in America: Healthcare and Opportunity (The Opportunity Agenda)

Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to and Quality of Health Care (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Key Themes and Highlights from the National Healthcare Disparities Report (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

Disparities in Health Care Are Driven by Where Minority Patients Seek Care (The Commonwealth Fund)

Separate and Unequal: Racial Segregation and Disparities in Quality across U.S. Nursing Homes (The Commonwealth Fund)

Providing Language Services in State and Local Health-Related Benefits Offices: Examples from the Field (The Commonwealth Fund)

Obtaining Data on Patient Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language in Health Care Organizations: Current Challenges and Proposed Solutions (The Commonwealth Fund)

From Awareness to Action: Stakeholders’ Strategies to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.)

Reducing Disparities in Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

Closing the Divide: How Medical Homes Promote Equity in Health Care: Results from the Commonwealth Fund 2006 Health Care Quality Survey (The Commonwealth Fund)

Why “Place Matters” in the State of the Union (Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies)

Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Low-Income Non-Citizen Adults (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Immigrants in the U.S. Health Care System: Five Myths that Misinform the American Public (Center for American Progress)

Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs (National Immigration Law Center)