Using Available Data to Understand the Health of Racialized Groups of People ABOUT RACE

Using Available Data to Understand the Health of Racialized Groups of People ABOUT RACE What is the relationship between race and health? Measuring differences in health between groups of racialized people helps to highlight unfair policy, practice and norms that produce differences in how long and how well people live. [...] With a few exceptions, CHR&R adheres to the nomenclature defined by The Office of Management and Budget (OMB): American Indian or Alaskan Native (AI/AN): includes people who identify as having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment and do not identify as Hispanic. [...] Asian: includes people who identify as having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam, and do not identify as Hispanic. [...] Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: includes people who identify as having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands and do not identify as Hispanic Two or more races: includes people who identify with more than one of the race categories and do not identify as Hispanic. [...] For example, the Hispanic ethnicity category combines individuals of all race categories; the Black race category combines individuals who are descendants of enslaved persons, immigrants and descendants of immigrants; the white race category includes individuals with origins in Middle Eastern and North African populations who experience racial discrimination in the U.