Health Equity Resources
To help you become more knowledgeable about healthcare disparities and what’s being done to address the issue, we’ve compiled several resources:
Position Papers and Data Sources
Expecting Success in Cardiac Care
Published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Reform and Communities of Color: How Might It Affect Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities?
Published by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiac Care: The Weight of the Evidence
Published by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2003
Published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Published by the Institute of Medicine
Organization Websites
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- American Medical Association
- Association of Black Cardiologists
- Go Red for Women
- NAACP
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- National Coalition of Women with Heart Disease
- National Hispanic Medical Association
- National Medical Association’s Diabetes Education Program
- National Minority Quality Forum
- Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Sister to Sister
- WomenHeart
- Women in Innovations
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Additional information
Promoting Equity
After Medtronic presented data on disparities in valvular disease at the Florida Heart Valve Symposia, we were asked to publish in CVD Prevention and Control.
Download a copy of the editorial: Social disparities and development opportunities in structural heart disease therapy.