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CDC Office of Minority Health & Disparities
Resource for CDC-based reports, publications, programming, and training opportunities. |
CDC Community Guide
The guide provides public health decision makers with recommendations regarding population-based interventions to promote health and to prevent disease, injury, disability, and premature death. It is appropriate for use by communities and health care systems. |
Healthy People 2010
A framework for prevention for the Nation. This statement of national health objectives is designed to identify the most significant, preventable threats to health, and to establish national goals to reduce these threats. |
IOM Unequal Treatment
The Institute of Medicine (IOM)'s assessment of the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by US racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities. It explores factors that may contribute to inequities in care and recommends policies and practices to eliminate these inequities. |
NCI Health Disparities Surveillance Research
This resource provides statistics by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, as well as reports on cancer in specific minority and underserved populations. |
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Minority Guide
This resource describes ways to develop and sustain minority survivorship programs, and includes the presentation of model programs. |
NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
This site includes funding opportunities, information and resources, and current studies in the areas of genetic, epidemiologic, behavioral, social, and surveillance cancer research. |
Public Health Geocoding Project
An introduction to geocoding and using area-based socioeconomic measures with public health surveillance data, based on the work of the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project at the Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health. |
SEER
A program of the National Cancer Institute, Surveilance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) is a source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. |
Trans-HHS Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group
Established by HHS (US Department of Health & Human Services), this group brings together the nation's leading researchers, health practitioners, and advocates, as well as cancer survivors, to look at eliminating health disparities in the area of cancer. |
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