title: Progress towards the year 2000: assessing the health status of minorities in Texas.
abstract: In 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a consensus set of 18 health status indicators to help communities assess their general health status and focus local, state, and national efforts on tracking the year 2000 objectives. States and local communities were encouraged also to analyze the indicators for each major racial and ethnic population in their jurisdictions. This article presents an update of trends in Texas for the health status indicators for the total population, along with comparisons by race and Hispanic origin for the most recent data. Analysis of these data reveals that the health status for the total population is improving as we approach the year 2000. Yet despite these overall gains, significant disparities exist between the total population and the racial and ethnic minorities in Texas. Further efforts are needed to reduce these health disparities.
authors.affiliation: Texas Department of Health from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Promotion Statistics, Austin 78756, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D013781:Texas