Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Women

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Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Women: The purpose of this initiative is to stimulate research aimed at reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minority and underserved women. More specifically, this initiative seeks applications for: (1) research related to health promotion or risk reduction among minority and underserved women age 21 and older; and, (2) intervention studies that show promise for improving the health profile of minority and underserved women. Investigators responding to this announcement should focus on enhancing the body of knowledge of a variety of factors (e.g., social, economic, demographic, community, societal, personal, cultural) influencing the health promoting and health compromising behaviors of racial and ethnic minority women and underserved women and their subpopulations. The focus of this program announcement is on women age 21 and older, but investigators may also focus on the childhood antecedents of adult health disparities.Each of the sponsors of this initiative has a strategic plan, which addresses health disparities and minority health. This can be found on each of the respective web sites. For purposes of this initiative, the definitions of health disparities and minority populations are those outlined in the NINRs Strategic Plan on Reducing Health Disparities located at www.nih.gov/ninr. Health Disparities are defined as differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the United States when compared to non-Hispanic Whites. Specific population groups are identified as African-Americans, Asian and Asian Pacific Islanders, Hispanic and Latino, Native American and Native Alaskan. Medically Underserved Populations are defined as populations that have inadequate access to, or reduced utilization of high quality health care. Included are low literacy, rural and low-income populations, including older minority women, geographically isolated women, lesbians, hearing and visually impaired women, physically or mentally disabled women, migrant workers, immigrant and refugee women, and language minority women. (Language minority individuals are those who do not speak the most common language or languages in a country or region, which in the United States means individuals who do not speak English. For information on language minority populations, see http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/diverse_voices.htm.) (For NICHDs plan to reduce health disparities, see http://www.nichd.nih.gov/strategicplan/disparities/disparities.pdf.)