AFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION: Statement of Purpose

1. To define unmet health needs, set priorities among these needs, and make recommendations for action related to these priorities; and

2. To engage community members in the importance of health and healthy behaviors, in order that they will function as thought leaders, coaches, and mentoring to their own communities' changes in health behaviors, and participate in other health care leadership roles in the general community.

3. To increase community knowledge about health risks and healthy behaviors through a culturally sensitive media campaign targeted to address priority health disparities in the local community, and

4. To bring together leaders from health insurers, health systems, and other health services providers to gain consensus on standardized definitions and local collection of data on patients' race, ethnicity, and preferred language, and on a timeline for implementing these, for the purpose of identifying sub-populations health problems, and informing the development of health services quality improvement and community-wide approaches to these problems.

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