In 1994, The Commonwealth Fund commissioned Louis Harris and Associated to conduct a survey of some 3,770 African American, Hispanic, Asian American, and white adults regarding thier experiences with health care. Participants were asked to describe their health status and health-related behaviors, their access to and use of health care servuces, their attituted toward the care they recieved, and related socioeconomic datae. The Fund then commissioned experts in minority health, women's health, health care, and health policy to analyze the data, draw policy implications, and make recommendations to improve the health and health care of minority populations.
Minority Health in America
assembles timely evidence from a major national survey regarding the different experiences of health care as it is being delivered to various minority members of our society—Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and minority women. It provides the documentation needed to assess the successes and failures of our present system and to chart productive directions for the future.