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You are here: Home / Browse PRRAC Content / Publications / CERD Health Report: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States (January 2008)

CERD Health Report: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States (January 2008)

January 1, 2008 by

Organizations:

The Opportunity Agenda—Poverty & Race Research Action Council—National Health Law Program—Center for American Progress—Center for Reproductive Rights—New York Lawyers for the Public Interest—Families USA—Physicians for Human Rights—Alliance for Healthy Homes— Center for Social Inclusion—Out of Many, One—Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc. (SHIRE)—Community Catalyst—Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law—Ipas— National Economic & Social Rights Initiative—Uplift International—Generations Ahead—Natural Resources Defense Council—PolicyLink—The Praxis Project—Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity—Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Boston Medical Center—Kellogg Health Scholars Program—Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University

Individuals:

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Harvard School of Public Health—Ana V. Diez-Roux, University of Michigan—Jack Geiger, City University of New York Medical School—Rachel D. Godsil, Seton Hall University School of Law—Professor Sherman James, Duke University—Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health—Vernellia R. Randall, University of Dayton Law School—David Barton Smith, Temple University—David R. Williams, Harvard School of Public Health

Excerpt: “It is now widely recognized that racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes in the U.S. are caused not only by structural inequities in our health care systems, but also by a wide range of social and environmental determinants of health. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recognizes and encompasses this dual analysis in the area of public health.”

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