This Today's Topics In Health Disparities webcast examines how ready the health care system is for the influx of newly covered individuals that health reform aims to deliver. The panelists discuss provisions in the bills that address the need for increasing the health care workforce and maintaining the safety net, as well as potential gaps in the legislation, and the possible impact on racial and ethnic health disparities.

This brief examines the health coverage, access to care and health status of American Indians and Alaska Natives across the country. 

This package of resources, including a comprehensive study, state fact sheets and interactive data tables, provides a rare state-level look at disparities among women of different races and ethnicities on a broad range of indicators of health and well-being.

This video provides a snapshot of the Arlington (Va.) Free Clinic where, twice a month, medical personnel provide care and screenings exclusively to women. The video explores the hurdles that uninsured women face in accessing health care and the social issues, including work and family responsibilities, that create challenges for them. It is a companion to the report, "Putting Women's Health Care Disparities On The Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level."

This study provides a rare and comprehensive state-level look at disparities among women of different races and ethnicities on a broad range of indicators of health and well-being.

This data update shows variation This updated fact sheet shows variations across states and racial and ethnic groups for six key health and health care indicators.

The Kaiser Family Foundation presents a series of live, interactive webcasts devoted to addressing a range of issues relating to health and health care disparities in the United States.

The fifth and final in a series of 2008 election briefs examines the issue of racial and ethnic disparities in health care – whether in insurance coverage, access, or quality of care.  The brief examines four broad policy areas for addressing racial and ethnic healthcare disparities and provides an overview of the presidential candidates' positions on the issue.  All of the series' previously released briefs can also be viewed online.

Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Dr.P.H., Kaiser senior advisor on race, ethnicity and health care, testified before the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee about the role of health insurance in reducing disparities in health care and in health status.

“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.