*Surveillance of Health Status in Minority Communities -- Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the U.S. (REACH U.S.) Risk Factor Survey, United States, 2009*
CDC conducts the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health across the U.S. (REACH U.S.) Risk Factor Survey annually in minority communities. The survey focuses on black, Hispanic, Asian (including Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander), and American Indian populations. Residents in most of the minority communities surveyed continue to have lower socioeconomic status, greater barriers to health-care access, and greater risks for and burden of disease compared with the general populations living in the same metropolitan and micropolitan statistical area, county, or state. Substantial variations in prevalence of risk factors, chronic conditions, and use of preventive services among different minority populations and different communities within the same racial/ethnic population provide opportunities for public health intervention. These variations also indicate that different priorities are needed to eliminate health disparities for different communities.
PDF of this issue [ http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss6006.pdf?source=govdelivery
*Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention*
CDC conducts the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health across the U.S. (REACH U.S.) Risk Factor Survey annually in minority communities. The survey focuses on black, Hispanic, Asian (including Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander), and American Indian populations. Residents in most of the minority communities surveyed continue to have lower socioeconomic status, greater barriers to health-care access, and greater risks for and burden of disease compared with the general populations living in the same metropolitan and micropolitan statistical area, county, or state. Substantial variations in prevalence of risk factors, chronic conditions, and use of preventive services among different minority populations and different communities within the same racial/ethnic population provide opportunities for public health intervention. These variations also indicate that different priorities are needed to eliminate health disparities for different communities.
PDF of this issue [ http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss6006.pdf?source=govdelivery
*Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention*
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