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U.S. Health Care: Disparities in Health and Healthy People 2010

Health status disparities "refer to the variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between socioeconomic and/or geographically defined population groups." (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012) The Health People 2010 Final Review states that the goals of Healthy People 2010 are to: (1) increase quality and years of healthy life; and (2) eliminate health disparities. (Healthy People 2010, Final Review)

Disparities by Education Level

Findings concerning disparities includes that the population with at least some college education "had the best rate for 88% of the objectives with data by education. The population with less than a high school education and high school graduates had the best group rate for 8% and 10% of the objectives with data by education, respectively.

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" (Healthy People 2010, Final Review) The population that completed high school was reported to have had rates "at least twice as high as the best group rate (100% of more category) for 18% of these objectives, and the population with less than a high school education had rates at least twice as high as the best group rate (100% of more category) for 24% of these objectives." (Healthy People 2010, Final Review)

II. Disparities by Geographic

It is reported that urban or metropolitan areas "had the better rate for 71% of the objectives with data" and that rural or nonmetropolitan areas "had….....

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