Disparities in Stage at Diagnosis, Survival, and UC Davis Form

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(soft music) (speaking foreign language) - Living here and working here I see the disparities that we're experiencing here at Solano County for marginalized communities. - Latinos and Filipino Americans and other under represented groups are not seeking services at the same rate as say the white population does and that's gonna impact their health outcomes. If you're not getting care you're gonna have a harder time getting well. - We looked at our data and we knew that we had a problem and our cultural competency committee took that data to kind of strategize and look at what we could do. There was an outreach to UC Davis, my predecessor was familiar with the work that the Center for Reducing Health Disparities does and we came together and collaboratively did an innovation plan that was then presented to the state and approved. - The Center for Reducing Health Disparities was created and founded by my colleague and friend Sergi Agular-Gaxiola. With the goal bringing health equity tot