Summary of Promising Programs to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Abstract

This report provides Delaware policymakers with a series of approaches, or best practices, used in other states to address minority health disparities. Since narrowing health disparities has gained greater attention at the national, state, and local levels, this collection of policy options should be considered a work-in-process. In developing this compendium, the research team had the benefit of input and feedback from State of Delaware officials and representatives of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League. Shortly after IPA began researching promising practices, The Commonwealth Fund published a tremendously valuable 87-page report: A State Policy Agenda to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (June 2004).