Human Rights Measure

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website includes a dedicated section entitled “Health Equity-Promoting Fair Access to Health” with several sub-sections including: Health Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups (e.g. containing information on “Factors that contribute to increased risk”); What We Can Do To Promote Health Equity (e.g. highlighting ways in which different stakeholders “all play a key part in promoting fair access to health”); Health Equity in Action (e.g. demonstrating the ways in which “CDC is working with state, territorial, local, and tribal partners, and community-serving organizations, to ensure all public health actions address health disparities for all populations”); COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (e.g. explaining the ways in which “some racial and ethnic minority groups [are] disproportionately affected by COVID-19”); CDC COVID-19 Response Health Equity Strategy (e.g. aiming “to improve the health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected [by COVID-19]” including, among other groups, “racial and ethnic minority population”); and Health Equity News & Resources (e.g. with links to relevant articles, publications, and webinars).