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OMHHE's e-newsletter to promote awareness of minority health and health equity issues, support the achievement of our goals to eliminate health disparities, and foster ongoing communication and collaboration.

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MMWR Supplement

CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity is excited to share with you the recently published MMWR Supplement Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities — Selected CDC-Sponsored Interventions, United States, 2016.

Statistics Highlight

Non-Hispanic blacks had the highest prevalence of self-reported obesity (38.1 percent), followed by

Hispanics (31.3 percent), and non-Hispanic whites (27.1 percent).

Quick Links

Promoting Health Care Access to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Farmworkers

New Spanish-language education materials to help organizations that serve Spanish-speaking immigrant workers raise awareness about occupational safety and health and motivate workers.

Publications

Moonesinghe R, Beckles GLA. (2015) Measuring health disparities: a comparison of absolute and relative disparities.

McCree Donna Hubbard, Koenig Linda J., Basile Kathleen C., Fowler Dawnovise, and Green Yvonne. Addressing the Intersection of HIV and Intimate Partner Violence among Women with or at Risk for HIV in the United States