Research Guides: Health Disparities: Reports and Surveys

Reports

The information contained in the reports below vary in their specificity and level of analysis pertaining to factors affecting health disparity. For more in-depth research assistance please consult a reference librarian.

National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
Tools for measuring health care quality, including the National Healthcare Disparities and Quality Reports, AHRQ Quality Indicators, and ambulatory clinical performance measures.
REACH U.S.
REACH Across the U.S. (REACH U.S.) is a national, multilevel program that serves as the cornerstone of CDC’s efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health.
DiversityData
The diversitydata.org project identifies metropolitan area indicators of diversity, opportunity, quality of life and health for various racial and ethnic population groups.

Surveys

The below surveys vary in their detail. For more in-depth survey data, please consult a reference librarian or our Vital and Health Statistics Guide.

California Health Interview Survey
CHIS is the nation's largest state health survey. Conducted every two years on a wide range of health topics, CHIS data gives a detailed picture of the health and health care needs of California's large and diverse population.
National Health Interview Survey
Survey results have been instrumental in providing data to track health status, health care access, and progress toward achieving national health care objectives.
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984.
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) is a continuous, multipurpose survey of a representative national sample of the Medicare population, conducted by the Office of Strategic Planning of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through a contract with Westat.
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The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) is a continuous, multipurpose survey of a representative national sample of the Medicare population, conducted by the Office of Strategic Planning of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through a contract with Westat. The central goals of MCBS are to determine expenditures and sources of payment for all services used by Medicare beneficiaries, including co-payments, deductibles, and non-covered services; to ascertain all types of health insurance coverage and relate coverage to sources of payment; and to trace processes over time, such as changes in health status and spending down to Medicaid eligibility and the impacts of program changes, satisfaction with care, and usual source of care.
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program is a public-private initiative to develop standardized surveys of patients' experiences with ambulatory and facility-level care.

General Reference

Research assistance for health disparity is available at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. See Reference and Research Help for complete reference service options.