State Medicaid agencies and health plans can play a key role in addressing disparities within ongoing quality improvement efforts. CHCS resources provide promising approaches and tools for addressing disparities as well as improving the quality of care.

OHM is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities.

The Office of Minority Health has sponsored the development of A Patient-Centered Guide to Implementing Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations guide to help healthcare organizations implement effective LAS to meet the needs of their limited English proficient (LEP) patients, thereby increasing their access to health care.

Prompted by a request from Congress, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) performed an assessment on the differences in the kinds and quality of health care received by United States racial and ethnic minorities and non minorities.

Uninsured adults are at least 25 percent more likely to die prematurely than adults who have private insurance. See state-level breakdowns of the 26,100 people between the ages of 25 and 64 who died prematurely due to a lack of health insurance in 2010. Also, learn why health insurance is so important. (Report published in 2012)

The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit membership organization. The association’s mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues.

The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) coordinates activities related to rural health care within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), ORHP has department-wide responsibility for analyzing the possible effects of policy on residents of rural communities

Health CARE disparities are differences among population groups in the availability, accessibility and quality of health care services aimed at prevention, treatment and management of diseases and their complications.

Health disparities are differences among population groups (e.g. ethnic, gender, income) in the incidence, prevalence and outcomes of health conditions, diseases and related complications of diseases.