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Reducing health disparities brings us closer to reaching health equity. Learn about health equity and what CDC is doing to reduce health disparities.

Interested in chronic disease data, risk factors, health indicators, and policy measures? CDC is making all these data and indicators much easier to access and use. Use the data to describe the burden of chronic disease as well as common risk factors, identify research gaps, monitor population trends, and evaluate programs.

Given the rapid aging of the U.S. population, increasing the use of preventive services by adults aged 50 or older is a key public health strategy.

Many organizations – public and private, large and small – contributed to the development of the National Action Plan. Some key activities from 1999 to 2010 brought national attention to limited health literacy as an issue, generated information and created the momentum for a plan.

Additional $34.2 Million for Public Health Improvement Programs through Affordable Care Act

Healthy People 2020 calls for increased monitoring of local health and health disparities, but successful models of designing and implementing data collection systems for this purpose are lacking.