title: Implications of the United States census 2000 in analyzing and reporting new findings of disparities in health.
abstract: This paper argues that, when analyzing and reporting new findings of disparities in health, two areas from the recent U.S. Census of 2000 should be considered for those findings to be meaningful. The first is to avoid analyzing and reporting findings of disparity with an emphasis on the term "Hispanic" and instead to specify the particular Hispanic group from which such findings were collected, such as Mexican-American versus Cuban communities. The second point is that such findings should also take into consideration combination of two or more races. For example, reporting would allow for multiple groupings for respondents who consider themselves African American and White, or African American, Asian, and White.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behaviorial Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0189, USA. fpaniagu@utmb.edu
authors.forename: Freddy A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Paniagua
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019352:Censuses; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001741:Black or African American