Emerging Infections Program Efforts to Address Health Equity |
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| Authors: | James L. Hadler Duc J. Vugia Nancy M. Bennett Matthew R. Moore |
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| Affiliation: | Connecticut Emerging Infections Program, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (J.L. Hadler); ;California Emerging Infections Program, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA (D.J. Vugia); ;New York Emerging Infections Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA (N.M. Bennett); ;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M.R. Moore) |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | race ethnicity health status disparity socioeconomic factors poverty social determinants of health inequalities Emerging Infections Program EIP |
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