Emerging Infections Program Efforts to Address Health Equity

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Hadler, James L. ; Vugia, Duc J. ; Bennett, Nancy M. ; Moore, Matthew R.
• Description:
  The Emerging Infections Program (EIP), a collaboration between (currently) 10 state health departments, their academic center partners, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was established in 1995. The EIP performs active, population-based surveillance for important infectious diseases, addresses new problems as they arise, emphasizes projects that lead to prevention, and develops and evaluates public health practices. The EIP has increasingly addressed the health equity challenges posed by Healthy People 2020. These challenges include objectives to increase the proportion of Healthy People-specified conditions for which national data are available by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status as a step toward first recognizing and subsequently eliminating health inequities. EIP has made substantial progress in moving from an initial focus on monitoring social determinants exclusively through collecting and analyzing data by race/ethnicity to identifying and piloting ways to conduct population-based surveillance by using area-based socioeconomic status measures.
• Subjects:
  Academic Medical Centers Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases, Emerging Healthcare Disparities Humans Interinstitutional Relations Public Health Surveillance State Government
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 21(9):1589-1594
• Pubmed ID:
  26291875
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4550158
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U50 CK000195/CK/NCEZID CDC HHS/United States
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:04072247a6da6cbfde8660d06e6c51964eb8bf1f72cedca60c81b94f87415a66
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33149/cdc_33149_DS1.pdf
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