Toward Equality of Well-Being: Strategies for Improving Minority Health.Strategic Planning and Coordination Process

摘要

This volume lays down strategic tracks in the six priority health areas--cancer,cardiovascular disease and stroke, diabetes, intentional violence, infant mortality, and substance abuse--that constitute 80 percent of the excess mortality experienced by minorities. HIV/AIDs is included as well because of the increasingly devastating impact the disease is having on minority and low-income populations. Other strategic tracks are delineated for crosscutting issues that influence overall health status, namely, access to health care and financing, data development, and health professions development. Within each track are minority-specific strategies related to outreach, patient education, delivery and financing, non-Federal health professions education, Federal health professions education, building the capacity of non-Federal health resources, data, and research. The strategies also tie in to and complement the national goals and objectives of Healthy People 2000.