Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care
 updated Dec. 2007 by Kira Paul and Eric Jacobson
Overview | Resources
The Institute for Public Administration (IPA) provides Delaware policymakers with a series of approaches, or best practices, used in other states to address minority health disparities. Despite amazing advancements in disease prevention and medical technology during the past century, evidence suggests that minorities still receive lower quality health care than do white Americans. Remarkably, these disparities exist even after controlling for factors like income, health insurance status, education levels, and geographic location, and the gap appears to be widening.
In an effort to promote multi-dimensional strategies to the elimination of disparities, IPA researchers emphasize three kinds of policy interventions: specific health conditions, system-wide (state-level) infrastructure and capacity options, and those for specific ethnic groups. Information is presented for 20 categories of best practices (as follows) in a summary report (the link to which is also below).
View/Download the Summary Report (1.1MB - PDF) 
For more information, e-mail Eric
Jacobson or call him at 302-831-1711.
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