Implementing health reform: Improved data collection and the monitoring of health disparities

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 123-138

  Dorsey, Rashida ^a   Graham, Garth ^b   Glied, Sherry ^c   Meyers, David ^d   Clancy, Carolyn ^e   Koh, Howard ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Care Act; Data standards; Demographic data; Population based surveys

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; ANCESTRY GROUP; DISABLED PERSON; ETHNIC GROUP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; DISABLED PERSONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;

EID: 84897097960     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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