Assessing the Strategies of State Offices of Minority Health to Reduce Health Disparities
Researchers suggest focusing on social determinants of health might have greater impact atreducing health disparities than individual-level approaches. The goal of this research was to compareperceived best practices to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities with the actual activities of stateoffi ces of minority health. Persons in charge of each state office of minority health responded to an onlinequestionnaire (N = 41, 82 percent response rate). Officers believed addressing social determinats of healthwould have greatest impact at reducing disparities yet devoted most resources to individual-level variables.Though state offices of minority health are under-resourced, officers must continue identifying innovative,collaborative methods to intervene on social determinants of health.