Diversity, Cultural Competence, and Health Disparities: Web Resources

Includes links to publications, webcasts, a Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TAACT) and other diversity resources especially as they relate to physician education.

Includes overviews and research results.
Scroll down the page for information cancer research studying specific disparities.

Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other topics related to the health care of immigrants to the US, many of whom are refugees.
EthnoMed is a joint program of the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries and Harborview Medical Center’s Interpreter Services Department (ISD).
Information is specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable in other geographic areas.

Includes links to information on health disparities, statistics and government resources for population groups (Asian American, African American, Hispanic and Native Hawaiian & other Pacific Islanders).

Healthy People identifies public health priorities to help individuals, organizations, and communities across the United States improve health and well-being. Healthy People 2030, the initiative’s fifth iteration, builds on knowledge gained over the first 4 decades.

Measuring health disparities is essential to advancing health equity. That’s why Healthy People 2030 monitors differences across population groups as it tracks progress toward meeting objectives. Healthy People data tools summarize and display these health disparities to help identify priority populations.
Healthy People 2030 also features evidence-based resources focused on strategies that are proven to improve health. These resources include interventions to address public health issues among specific population groups and improve the health of all people.

One of Healthy People 2030’s 5 overarching goals is specifically related to SDOH: “Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining the full potential for health and well-being for all.”
In line with this goal, Healthy People 2030 features many objectives related to SDOH. These objectives highlight the importance of "upstream" factors — usually unrelated to health care delivery — in improving health and reducing health disparities.

From the National Library of Medicine, consumer health information topics by population group and links to content on health disparities.

Promotes minority health and leads NIH efforts to reduce and eliminate health disparities.

Part of the US Department of Health and Human Services

Health-related data from the Census bureau is often sorted by demographic factors like age, race / ethnicity, income level, education level, etc.