HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Health Equity, Data Reporting
Document Summary
Reporting of accurate and complete race and ethnicity data provides essential information to target and evaluate public health inventions aimed at underrepresented populations. Community health professionals and researchers have long recognized many crucial issues in the way that racial and ethnic variables are assessed in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of health information. Racial history has been viewed as a biological construct. National electronic telecommunications system for surveillance study : race and ethnicity may not be reported by health care providers for at least four reasons: Not knowing the standards for data collections. As a consequence of the combined effect of numerator and denominator biases death rates for the white population have been overestimated by about 1% By 5% for the african american population. Death rates are underestimated for american-indian or alaska-native population by nearly 21%a. By 11% for asian or pacific islanders.
