"Spreading the Health: Government’s Role in Addressing Health Disparities"

• Key Themes and Highlights from the National Health Care Disparities Report (U.S.)

• Statement on a New Cross-Sectoral Public Health Institute in Sweden (PDF)
  Provided with permission by the Health Division and translated by Laura Chadwick.

• HSPH examines government role in health disparities -- Harvard Gazette, March 10, 2005

• International Government Officials Share Views on Ways to Lessen Health Disparities -- HPH NOW, March 18, 2005

"Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas for National Health Research Institutes"

• Investigating health disparities -- Harvard Gazette, April 21, 2005

"Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics Systems to Action"

• History Counts: A Comparative Analysis of Racial/Color Categorization in US and Brazilian Censuses (PDF)
  Reprinted with permission from the American Public Health Association.

• CLASSIFICATION OF RACE AND ETHNICITY: Implications for Public Health (PDF)
  Reprinted with permission from the Annual Review.

• The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph: Geocoding and Monitoring US Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: An introduction to using area-based socioeconomic measures    

• Reclaiming the State: Advancing People's Health, Challenging Injustice (PDF)
   For more relevant papers and publications, access www.equinetafrica.org.

• Health Inequalities and New Labour: How the Promises Compare with Real Progress

• Health Inequalities: Decennial Supplement No 15, Drever & Whitehead -- Office for National Statistics 1997

• Our Healthier Nation: A Contract for Health (1998)

• Tackling Health Inequalities: A Programme for Action (July 2003)

• Neighbourhood Statistics -- Small area data covering a range of health and wider social issues

• Local Basket of Indicators -- Enable local areas to develop relevant tailor-made indicators to monitor inequalities

• Health Poverty Index -- Visualise differences between areas and area types to raise awareness of local issues

• Health Equity Audit -- Enable local areas to be profiled and resources shifted to address needs

• Health Impact Assessment -- Provides a practical approach to assessing the impact of health policies and proposals on peopleís health. Recommendations are produced to inform decision-makers

• Regulatory Impact Assessment -- Analysis of the likely impact of a range of options for implementing a policy change ‚ health assessment has now been built into the RIA process