A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) health equity and antibiotic resistance fact sheet highlights health disparities related to antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
The fact sheet notes disparities caused by antibiotic-resistant threats exist across varying factors, such as age, race, and gender. Antibiotic-resistant infections also are tied to social determinants of health, indicating access to health care, food supply, and community environment play a role in disparate outcomes.
The fact sheet highlights CDC goals, including:
- systematically expanding the collection of disparities and equity data;
- continuing to characterize health inequities related to key bacterial pathogens across incidence, infection outcome, and antibiotic resistance at a geospatial level, linking inequities to social determinants indicators;
- supporting infection control and patient safety efforts;
- addressing educational needs that impact diverse health care workers’ ability to protect themselves and their patients from infections; and
- focusing on strategies to address disparities in quality of care in long-term care.
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Contact Senior Director of Policy Erin O’Malley at eomalley@essentialhospitals.org or 202.585.0127 with questions.
