{"id":38093,"date":"2014-11-05T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38093"},"modified":"2014-11-05T23:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T23:02:56","slug":"use-of-race-and-ethnicity-in-public-health-surveillance-summary-of-the-cdcatsdr-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38093","title":{"rendered":"Use of Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Surveillance: Summary of the CDC\/ATSDR Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Use of Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Surveillance: Summary of the CDC\/ATSDR Workshop<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

United States Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>
\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>
\nMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report<\/a>
\nVolume 42, 1993-06-25, Number RR-10
\n28 pages<\/p>\n

…Preface<\/strong><\/p>\n

This edition of\u00a0MMWR Recommendations and Reports<\/em><\/a>\u00a0summarizes a workshop\u00a0that addresses the role of race and ethnicity in public health surveillance. The importance of public health surveillance efforts in assuring the nation\u2019s health objectives\u00a0cannot be overstated. However, because of a lack of consensus when defining and\u00a0measuring race and ethnicity, public health surveillance systems have been limited. If\u00a0the Year 2000 Health Objectives<\/a> are to be met, recognizing and addressing these limitations are essential.<\/p>\n

The issues addressed in this report highlight concepts, measures, and uses of race\u00a0and ethnicity in public health surveillance. Representing the private sector, government and other public agencies, workshop participants assisted CDC<\/a> and the Agency\u00a0for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry<\/a> (ATSDR) in describing, assessing, and improving the use of race and ethnicity in public health surveillance. The involvement of\u00a0health professional organizations and minority health advocates ensured that relevant\u00a0\u201creal life\u201d health concerns of racial and ethnic groups were addressed. This report\u00a0includes summaries of plenary presentations by invited experts. The summaries do\u00a0not necessarily represent the views or positions of CDC.<\/p>\n

The workshop focused on the limitations of the current use of race and ethnicity in\u00a0public health surveillance, and the problems that persist because of these limitations.\u00a0Although conceptual alternatives and practical strategies for improvement were recommended, further refinement is necessary. For example, while race may have some\u00a0biological basis, its significance is mainly derived from social arrangements. Thus,\u00a0race should be viewed within public health surveillance as a sociological phenomenon. Race and ethnicity are not risk factors \u2014 they are markers used to better\u00a0understand risk factors.<\/strong> For instance, homicide disproportionately impacts African\u00a0American communities; however, when income status is considered, the impact of\u00a0homicide in African American communities is similiar to that in white communities.\u00a0Finally, there should be further exploration of the full utility of the concept of ethnicity. This term generally has been limited to definers such as surname or language,\u00a0while ignoring, for example, the importance of historical and sociological experiences.<\/p>\n

The recommendations generated from the workshop were developed for\u00a0CDC\/ATSDR and some of them may be used to improve surveillance systems at CDC\/ATSDR and in other parts of the Public Health Service. In addition, some of these\u00a0recommendations may be used to update the 1985 Report of the Secretary\u2019s Task\u00a0Force on Black and Minority Health<\/a>, as well as in measuring progress in reaching theYear 2000 Health Objectives. These recommendations have been submitted to the Director of CDC for consideration. They are being published in this format to stimulate\u00a0further discussion. Some of these recommendations may exceed the missions of CDC\u00a0and ATSDR, may be in conflict with other recommendations, or may be in various\u00a0stages of implementation. Any comments regarding these recommendations may be\u00a0sent to me at: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of the Associate Director for Minority Health, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D39, Atlanta, GA 30333.<\/p>\n

Rueben C. Warren, D.D.S., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
\nAssociate Director for Minority Health…<\/p>\n

Read the entire report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Use of Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Surveillance: Summary of the CDC\/ATSDR Workshop United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Volume 42, 1993-06-25, Number RR-10 28 pages …Preface This edition of\u00a0MMWR Recommendations and Reports\u00a0summarizes a workshop\u00a0that addresses the role of race and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,8,681,20],"tags":[18355,18356,18358,18352,18357,18353,18354],"class_list":["post-38093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-reports","category-usa","tag-agency-for-toxic-substances-and-disease-registry","tag-atsdr","tag-cdc","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-hhs","tag-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report","tag-united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}