At a glance
This page includes select publications and scientific articles relevant to minority health by CDC's Office of Health Equity (OHE) and Office of Minority Health (OMH), HHS, and others.
Recent Reports
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that influence health outcomes, and structural and systemic drivers of health (SSD) are the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that create and shape SDOH. New OMH publication “A Shift in Approach to Addressing Public Health Inequities and the Effect of Societal Structural and Systemic Drivers on Social Determinants of Health”, aims to assess the interrelationship between societal structures and systems and their effect on SDOH and health outcomes.
In the spring of 2022, Public Health Reports (PHR), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE; now CDC’s Office of Health Equity), released a Call for Papers inviting submissions for a supplement on practice-based research about promising and effective strategies for advancing health equity by improving minority health and reducing health disparities. This supplement was envisioned to give state, tribal, local, and territorial public health practitioners opportunities to not only discuss health equity–related insights, but to also highlight their efforts, achievements, and service on behalf of the public, to advance health equity. Read the supplement Practice-Based Health Equity Research from the Frontlines online.
CDC Health Disparities & Inequalities Report (CHDIR)
The CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report is a series of periodic, consolidated assessments that highlight health disparities by sex, race, and ethnicity, income, education, disability status, and other social characteristics in the U.S.
The reports provide analysis and reporting of the recent trends and ongoing variations in health disparities and inequalities in selected social and health indicators, both of which are important steps in encouraging actions and facilitating accountability to reduce modifiable disparities by using interventions that are effective and scalable.
Related Research in Health Disparities
- Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities Among Rural Adults — United States, 2012–2015
- Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, by Region — United States, March–December 2020
- CDC COVID-19 Response Health Equity Strategy: Accelerating Progress Towards Reducing COVID-19 Disparities and Achieving Health Equity
- Social Determinants of Health
- Healthy People 2030
- CDC Vital Signs