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  • The report analyzes how health disparities related to race and ethnicity have evolved over time.
  • It focuses on the Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) objectives as a framework for evaluation.
  • Three specific measures of disparity are used to assess these changes in health outcomes.

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This report examines changes in health disparities over time by race and ethnicity for HP2020 objectives using three measures of disparity.

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