Health Care Disparities Resources: Home

This specialized literature database is maintained by the OMH and focuses on research specific to health care disparities and health inequities. It includes over 70,000 items in various formats. Highly recommended as a first stop when researching this topic.

HD Pulse is a data portal maintained by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (part of NIH). It provides access to aggregate data on statewide mortality, demographics, risk factors, disease incidence, and more. Select your state and navigate using the tabs to find the topic of interest. Then click on the "Table" icon to generate a custom dataset.

From the interactive map, select your state. You will be provided with an overview of the proportion of health care quality and disparities measures that achieved or failed to achieve the benchmark.

From this page, you can view the national report. Many accompanying resources - included a PowerPoint, data sources, an detailed methodological description - are also included on this page.

This link allows you to directly select the health care measures of interest and filter by state.