Advancing health equity requires a data-driven approach. Use our health disparity metric picklists to uncover focus areas for your organization. Select institution-oriented metrics to assess disparate outcomes across your patients and organization and community-oriented metrics to understand how inequitable community conditions impact health outcomes. Best in class organizations combine both sets of metrics to understand the full scope of health inequity. We’ve paired each metric with reference data when available so you can benchmark your performance.

Once you’ve selected your metrics, compare outcomes within and across the socio-demographic domains below. In addition, take an intersectional approach to identify groups most at risk of experiencing inequities. By layering multiple identities at once (such as race and gender) in your analysis, you can better understand how different types of oppression and privilege interact to impact outcomes.