Stakeholder application of the strategic framework for improving racial and ethnic minority health and addressing racial and ethnic health disparities: The HHS Region IV example

Since the 1985 Task Force Report on Black and Minority Health, racial and ethnic health disparities persist, and in some cases, are increasing. Such persistence affirms the need for greater organization and coordination of the systematic planning, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to achieve better results relative to minority health improvements and health disparities reductions. This presentation describes the Framework developed and released by OMH in more detail and shows how it can be used by stakeholders to reinforce application of existing science and knowledge in planning and implementing programmatic, policy, and research-oriented actions and activities. How the Framework is being applied across individual, environmental/ community, and systems levels will also be described.