IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/eme/aheszz/s0731-2199(08)19002-1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Achieving the healthy people 2010 goal of elimination of health disparities: What will it take?

In: Beyond Health Insurance: Public Policy to Improve Health

Author

Listed:
  • Kevin Fiscella

Abstract

The second national goal for Healthy People 2010 is the elimination of health disparities related to social disadvantage in the United States. Unfortunately, progress to date has been limited. Our national strategy to achieve this goal has been too narrowly focused on public health. Success will require a broader strategy including alignment of existing national policies in non-health areas that affect the health of the socially disadvantaged such as education, health care, labor, welfare, housing, criminal justice, the environment, and taxation if it is to succeed. Key criteria are needed to begin to prioritize areas for federal investment to achieve this goal. These include the impact of the targeted condition on disparities, evidence base for the intervention, potential impact of the policy on disparities, economic impact, and federal politics. Two “big ideas” offer promise including federal investment in early child education and enhanced primary care within federally qualified community health centers. The proposed criteria are applied to each proposed policy.

Suggested Citation

  • Kevin Fiscella, 2008. "Achieving the healthy people 2010 goal of elimination of health disparities: What will it take?," Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, in: Beyond Health Insurance: Public Policy to Improve Health, pages 25-41, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:aheszz:s0731-2199(08)19002-1
    DOI: 10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19002-1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19002-1/full/html?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19002-1/full/pdf?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19002-1/full/epub?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec&title=10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19002-1
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19002-1?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eme:aheszz:s0731-2199(08)19002-1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Emerald Support (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.