Disaggregating race and ethnicity data: findings from community focus groups
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- New York Academy of Medicine. Center for Evaluation and Applied Research, issuing body. New York University. Center for the Study of Asian American Health, issuing body. New York Academy of Medicine, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : New York Academy of Medicine, Center for Evaluation and Applied Research (CEAR), June 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Data Collection -- methods Ethnicity Focus Groups Racial Groups United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Categorizing race and ethnicity data has been an ongoing endeavor of many political, academic, health, and social institutions in the United States. This information is used for a range of purposes including describing populations, understanding community needs, and designating resources. The ways in which racial and ethnic identities are grouped for these purposes has changed over time. With respect to their most recent form under the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standard categories, concerns have been raised over the need to disaggregate these broad categories for a more comprehensive accounting of racial and ethnic identities within the United States. The Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH) at New York University (NYU) is working to develop tools and systems to prospectively and retrospectively disaggregate race and ethnicity data collected, with a particular focus on use by public health practitioners and health professionals. In order to support these efforts, the Center for Evaluation and Applied Research (CEAR) at The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) convened a series of focus groups with diverse community members to gain perspectives on race and ethnic identity, preferences for reporting race and ethnicity, beliefs, and other factors that underlie these perspectives and preferences, and recommendations regarding communications on race and ethnicity. The aim of this study was to provide community input to inform the development of tools and approaches to disaggregating race and ethnicity data in New York State.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (33 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918734073106676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918734073106676