Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women
Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Fact Sheet
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Women experience differences in receipt of health care services and outcomes. This fact sheet summarizes key findings from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports related to health care for women.

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Contents
Introduction
Women's Health
Summary
Additional Information



Introduction

Women's health is a priority population for AHRQ, meaning women have unique health care needs or issues that require special focus. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports research on all aspects of health care provided to women, including: enhancing the response of the health system to women's needs; understanding differences between the health care needs of women and men; understanding and eliminating disparities in health care; and providing evidence to inform women in their health care decisions. This fact sheet focuses on findings in the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, two of many AHRQ publications that address women's health.

Since 2003, AHRQ has annually reported on progress and opportunities for improving health care quality and reducing health care disparities. As mandated by the U.S. Congress, the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) focuses on "national trends in the quality of health care provided to the American people" while the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) focuses on "prevailing disparities in health care delivery as it relates to racial factors and socioeconomic factors in priority populations". Priority populations include racial and ethnic minorities, low-income groups, women, children, older adults, residents of rural areas and inner cities, and individuals with disabilities and special health care needs.


full-text and related information:
Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports



Additional Information
The 2010 National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report are available online at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr10.htm.

Additional information on programs and activities related to women's health at AHRQ is available at http://www.ahrq.gov/research/womenix.htm or by contacting:


Beth A. Collins Sharp, PhD, RN
Senior Advisor, Women's Health and Gender Research
Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations (OEREP)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (301) 427-1503
E-mail: Beth.CollinsSharp@ahrq.hhs.gov

AHRQ Publication No. 11-0005-1-EF
Replaces AHRQ Publication No. 05-P021
Current as of March 2011


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Internet Citation:

Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Fact Sheet. AHRQ Publication No. 11-0005-1-EF, March 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhqrwomen/nhqrwomen.htm

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