National data for monitoring and evaluating racial and ethnic health inequities: Where do we go from here?

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 470-487

  Griffith, Derek M ^a   Moy, Ernest ^b   Reischl, Thomas M ^a   Dayton, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data; Evaluation; Health disparities; Health education; Health inequalities; Health inequities; Health policy; Monitoring; Program evaluation; Research

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RACE; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745098981     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198106287923     Document Type: Review

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