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Data & Measurement

PROLOGUE

Vulnerable Populations: Data And Measurement Issues

As the twenty-first century dawned, hopes swelled that decades of data collection on health disparities would catalyze previously elusive reductions. The data, budget surpluses, and other factors had brought the nation and its policymakers to a tipping point. Federal health disparity reduction initiatives rolled out in rapid succession. Healthy People 2010, released in 2000, didn’t just call for disparity reduction; it also made elimination of specific disparities one of the nation’s two highest health priorities and provided minority-specific baseline data. The 2002 Institute of Medicine report, Unequal Treatment, galvanized the growing sense of purpose to level the health playing field . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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