HHS Issues New Standards for Reporting of Health Information to Better Tackle Health Disparities

HHS has finalized new standards that more consistently measure race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability status, which can help highlight and target health disparities.

 



The new standards include a new requirement to add Mexican American and Chicano/a, Puerto Rican, Cuban and other Hispanic Latino/a or Spanish origin as explicit categories on all HHS-sponsored health surveys. The new data collection requirements also will improve researchers' ability to consistently monitor more dimensions of health disparities among people with disabilities.

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