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1 Introduction
Pages 14-20

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... . There are substantial differences across racial groups in the percentage of women over the age of 40 who received a mammogram within the past 2 years: according to data from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey, among women at least 40 years old, 71.4 percent of white women received a mammogram compared with 67.8 percent of African American women, 47.3 percent of American Indian or Alaska Native women, and 53.3 percent of Asian women (National Center for Health Statistics, 2003)
From page 15...
... In 1999, Congress required the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to produce an annual National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) that would monitor disparities in health care by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography.
From page 16...
... But there are many weaknesses in the data sources currently available. National-level surveys sponsored or conducted by the federal government are rich in information on health and health care outcomes as well as other characteristics of individuals; but while most have large enough sample sizes to obtain reliable information about broad racial and ethnic groups (i.e., blacks and whites)
From page 17...
... . The panel was asked to: · identify the data needed both to support efforts to evaluate the effects of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic position on access to health care and on disparities in health and to enforce existing protections for equal access to heath care; · assess the effectiveness of the data systems and collection practices of DHHS and the effectiveness of selected systems and practices of other federal, state, and local agencies and the private sector in collecting and analyzing such data; and · identify critical gaps in the data and suggest ways in which they could be filled, including the possible establishment of new systems.
From page 18...
... , and their health care treatments (e.g., what treatment they received, the cultural competency of the health care professionals administering the treatment, etc.)
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... , is included in Appendix C Four papers also were commissioned for the workshop: The Role of Racial and Ethnic Data Collection in Eliminating Disparities in Health Care (Fremont and Lurie)
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... Both state health departments and private sector entities have roles to play in the collection of data for research on disparities. States are responsible for the collection and maintenance of a number of data systems in health and health care -- many of which are then forwarded to DHHS for use on a national level (e.g., vital records and hospital discharge abstracts)


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