Sources

En Español


A Case for Closing the Gap Sources PDF Version Email Page



	Sources Prepared by: Michael Halle, Special Assistant HHS Office of Health Reform Caya B. Lewis MPH, Director of Outreach and Public Health Policy HHS Office of Health Reform Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Director of Policy Analysis HHS Office of Health Reform Report Production by the HHS Web Communications and New Media Division ¹ Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Health Expenditure. Projections for 2008. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/03_NationalHealthAccountsProjected.asp#TopOfPage ² Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ³ Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ⁴ American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2008. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; 2008. ⁵ Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ⁶ Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ⁷ McCracken, M., Olsen, M., Chen, M. S., Jr., Jemal, A., Thun, M., Cokkinides, V., Deapen, D., Ward, E. “Cancer Incidence, Mortality, and Associated Risk Factors Among Asian Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese Ethnicities” CA Cancer J Clin 2007 57: 190-205 ⁸ Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ⁹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2007. Vol. 19. Atlanta: U.S. ¹⁰ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008 ¹¹ Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ¹² Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicaid and the Uninsured, (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). ¹³ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008 ¹⁴ Unpublished data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ¹⁵ Unpublished data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ¹⁶ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008 ¹⁷ Unpublished data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ¹⁸ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008 ¹⁹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2007. Vol. 19. Atlanta: U.S. ²⁰ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008 ²¹ Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ²² McCracken, M., Olsen, M., Chen, M. S., Jr., Jemal, A., Thun, M., Cokkinides, V., Deapen, D., Ward, E. “Cancer Incidence, Mortality, and Associated Risk Factors Among Asian Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese Ethnicities” CA Cancer J Clin 2007 57: 190-205 ²³ Unpublished data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ²⁴ Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Ramos, C., Siegel, B., Woods, K. (2008). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Healthcare: A Chartbook.” The Commonwealth Fund. ²⁵ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008 ²⁶ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2008 Report revised Friday, June 12, 2009.