This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide for hospitals to help accelerate the elimination of health care disparities and ensure organization leadership teams and board members reflect the communities they serve.

Several examples of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored initiatives that address health disparities with the goal of advancing health equity.

This position paper discusses the theory that improved population health cannot be achieved without progress toward a culture of patient and family-engaged care that ensures all populations (and members within populations) have equitable opportunities to achieve and maintain health.