CDC’s COVID-19 Response: Health Equity Strategy
Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing efforts to address avoidable inequities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and healthcare disparities. Long-standing systemic health and social inequities have put many people from racial and ethnic minority groups at an increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19.
Improve Health for All with New Healthy People 2030
Since 1980, the Healthy People initiative has set goals and measurable objectives to improve health and well-being in the United States. The initiative's fifth edition, Healthy People 2030, released August 2020 builds on knowledge gained over the past 4 decades to address current and emerging public health priorities and challenges.
New Data Finds Adult Obesity is Increasing
Obesity is a common, serious, and costly chronic disease. Having obesity puts people at risk for many other serious chronic diseases and increases the risk of severe illness from COVID-19. Everyone has a role to play in turning the tide against obesity and its disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minority groups.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Mortality Rate of Infants Born to Teen Mothers
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released a new report in July finding that from 2017-2018, infants of teenagers aged 15-19 had the highest rate of mortality (8.77 deaths per 1,000 live births) compared with infants of women aged 20 or over in the United States.
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