Health disparities refer to those avoidable differences in health among specific population groups that result from cumulative social disadvantages. The Department of Public Health monitors health disparities as an essential part of reducing the disease burden on vulnerable populations in Connecticut, identifying high-risk groups, formulating health care policy, and evaluating our state’s progress in eliminating health disparities.

This Health Disparities Statistics and Research web page provides relevant information about health disparities in mortality, hospitalizations, birth outcomes, disease incidence, and risk factor prevalence for priority health disparities populations. Such priority population groups may be based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, socioeconomic position, immigrant status, sexual minority status, language, disability, homelessness, and geographic area of residence.  The links below provide current information for publications, presentations, and data tables related to health disparities and health outcomes among Connecticut residents.

 

The Connecticut Health Disparities Project was a two-year cooperative agreement (2006-2008) generously supported by the Connecticut Health Foundation. Its products and publications are marked with a bullet [] and can be found below.

 

 

 

 The Collection of Race, Ethnicity, and Other Sociodemographic Data in Connecticut Department of Public Health Databases, 2007 (PDF 2MB)

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Mortality and Its Risk Factors in Connecticut, 2005 (PDF 16MB)
Connecticut Women’s Health, 2001
Multicultural Health: The Health Status of Minority Groups in Connecticut, 1999 (PDF 692KB)

 

 

The Landscape of Health Disparities in Connecticut (2011) (PDF 611KB)

Health Disparities in Connecticut: Current Surveillance Data, 2008 (PDF 130KB) 

The Changing Meaning of Race in the Social Sciences: Some Implications for Research and Social Policy, 2008 (PDF 50KB)

 An Examination of the Use of Race/Ethnicity in State Health Disparities Reports, 2007 (PDF 316KB)

Health Disparities in Connecticut: Current Surveillance Data, 2005 (PDF 541KB)
Road Map to Health , 2004  (PDF 483KB)
Connecticut Latinos: Lower Age-Adjusted Death but Higher Premature Mortality Rates Compared with White Residents, 2004 (PDF 152KB)

 

 

 

Facts About Minority Health in Connecticut (Highlight Brief #1) April, 2013 (PDF 188KB)

 Defining Health Disparities, Summer 2007 (PDF 410KB)

 Race and Ethnicity Matters: Concepts and Challenges of Racial and Ethnic Classifications in Public Health (Fall 2007) (PDF 359KB)

Health Care for Connecticut’s Underserved Population, October, 2011 (PDF 273KB)

 

 

Please go to our Mortality Statistics page to view our current data on death counts; age-adjusted mortality and premature mortality rates; and mortality disparities by gender, race, and ethnicity.

 

 

For further information, please go to our Health Care Quality Reports page to view our current data about chronic disease hospitalization rates by gender, race, and ethnicity; average length of stay; and median charges.

 

 

 

Connecticut Department of Public Health Policy on Collecting Sociodemographic Data

 

 

 

This report focuses on providing information on approaches to using race/ethnicity data for reducing disparities in the quality of health and health care. It cites Connecticut as a leading state in the analysis of data and reporting on health disparities. 

 

 

CT Department of Public Health:

   Asthma
   Connecticut Tumor Registry 

   Diabetes Surveillance
   Heart Disease and Stroke Surveillance

   HIV/AIDS Surveillance

   Office of Multicultural Health

   Sexually Transmitted Diseases
   Tuberculosis 
   Health Professional Shortage Areas/Medically Underserved Areas/Populations