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Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of February 14, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate, and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.

Health disparities are health differences between different groups of people. These health differences may include:

• How many people get certain diseases
• How severe the diseases are
• How many people have complications because of the diseases
• How many people die from a disease
• Whether people can get health care
• How many people get screened for a disease

These groups of people may be based on:

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Immigrant status
• Disability
• Sex or gender
• Sexual orientation
• Geography
• Income
• Level of education

NIH: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

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• What Are Health Disparities? (National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities)

Specifics

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• Cancer Health Disparities Definitions and Examples (National Cancer Institute)
• Disparities in the Impact of Air Pollution (American Lung Association)
• Health Disparities in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Health Disparities in Oral Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• LGBT -- Healthy People 2030 (Department of Health and Human Services)
• Neglected Diseases (National Human Genome Research Institute)
• NIH-Designated Populations with Health Disparities (National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities)
• Rural Health Disparities (Rural Health Information Hub)
• The Truth About African American Women and Heart Disease (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF

Statistics and Research

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• Cancer Data and Statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Cancer Statistics by Demographics (National Cancer Institute)
• Indian Health Disparities (Indian Health Service)
• National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Tuberculosis and Black or African American Persons (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish

Clinical Trials

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• ClinicalTrials.gov: Healthcare Disparities (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Racial and Ethnic Disparities (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

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• Article: Socioecological factors linked to co-occurring early childhood sleep health disparities and...
• Article: Racial and ethnic disparities in children and adults in the usage...
• Article: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Actual vs Nearest Delivery Hospitals.
• Health Disparities -- see more articles

Find an Expert

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• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Also in Spanish
• Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
• Minority Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities