CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities in the United States (CHDIR) - 2011 consolidates the most recent national data available on disparities in mortality,morbidity, behavioral risk factors, or health-care access,preventive health services, and social determinants of critical health problems in the United States by using selected indicators. The data pertaining to inequalities in income, or morbidity,mortality, and self-reported healthy days highlight the considerable and persistent gaps between the healthiest persons and states and the least healthy. A common theme among the different indicators presented in CHDIR 2011 is that universally applied interventions will seldom be sufficient to address the problems effectively.
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