Boston Disparities Report
A presentation and analysis of health disparities in Boston produced by the Boston Public Health Commission in June 2005.

Institute on Urban Health Research
The IUHR was founded in response to serious and largely unmitigated disparities in the level of overall health and health care found in urban populations, particularly those of the urban poor, African-American and Latino communities.

Massachusetts Cancer Registry
The MCR is responsible for the collection of information regarding all newly diagnosed cases of cancer in Massachusetts. These data provide crucial information for monitoring the impact of environmental and occupational hazards, as well as for designing and evaluating cancer prevention and control programs.

MassCHIP
A dynamic, user-friendly information service that provides free, online access to these and many other health and social indicators. With MassCHIP, you can obtain community-level data to assess health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs.

Race/Ethnicity Reports
A resource provided by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Reach 2010 Commission
The mission of Boston's REACH 2010 Coalition is to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in breast and cervical cancer by creating, with the community, a culturally competent system which promotes screening, education, prevention, treatment, and access to care for Black women and women of African descent in Boston.

National Resources

CDC Office of Minority Health
Resource for CDC-based reports, publications, programming, and training opportunities.

CDC Community Guide
Provides public health decision makers with recommendations regarding population-based interventions to promote health and to prevent disease, injury, disability, and premature death, appropriate for use by communities and health care systems.

Healthy People 2010
A framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

IOM Unequal Treatment
IOM assessment of the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; exploration of factors that may contribute to inequities in care; and recommendations of policies and practices to eliminate these inequities.

NCI Health Disparities Surveillance Research
Resource for statistics by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status as well as reports on cancer in specific minority and underserved populations.

National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Minority Guide
Resource describing ways to develop and sustain minority survivorship programs, including presentation of model programs.

NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
Resource for funding opportunities, information and resources, current research in the areas of genetic, epidemiologic, behavioral, social, and surveillance cancer research.

Public Health Geo-coding Project
An introduction to geocoding and using area-based socioeconomic measures with public health surveillance data, based on the work of the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project at the Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health.

SEER
A program of the National Cancer Institute, SEER is a source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States.

Trans-HHS Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group
Established by HHS to bring together the nation's leading researchers, health practitioners and advocates as well as cancer survivors, to look at eliminating health disparities in the area of cancer.