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Describe the 3 major claims of the 2007 National Health Care Disparities report.
The National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) describes the quality of and access to care for multiple subgroups across the United States, and also represents a source of information for tracking the Nation's progress over time. The observed disparities vary by condition and population.
. For the core measures included in the disparities report, blacks received poorer quality care than whites on 73 percent of the measures; Hispanics received poorer quality care than non-Hispanic whites for 77 percent of the measures; and low-income people received lower quality care than high-income people for 71 percent of these measures.
According to the NHDR 2007 Some examples of disparities that have been reduced include: