Laws
No laws were found requiring data disaggregation based on race or ethnicity.
However, there are laws that empower the Department of Health and Human Services to collect a wide range of health data and to issue guidance on data collection.
The 2022 guidance report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services provides guidance for “all Utah state agencies, organizations receiving state funding, local health departments, healthcare organizations, other local government agencies, and all other organizations working across the state of Utah.”
The guidance requires collection of the OMB categories, and it also provides information for “additional granularity,” which recommends that the data collector consider feasibility and practicality of collection and ensure the data can still be organized under the OMB categories. The “additional granularity standard” includes:
- American Indian/Alaska Native:
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- American Indian/Alaska Native
- Canadian Inuit, Metis, or First Nation
- Indigenous Mexican, Central American, or South American
- Some other American Indian/Alaska Native (please specify):
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- Asian/Asian American:
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- Asian Indian
- Chinese
- Filipino/a
- Japanese
- Korean
- Vietnamese
- Some other Asian/Asian American (please specify):
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- Black/African American:
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- African American
- Black African
- Black Caribbean
- Some other Black (please specify):
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- Hispanic/Latino/a/x:
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- Central American
- Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano/a
- South American
- Spanish/Spaniard
- Some other Hispanic/Latino/a/x (please specify):
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- Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander:
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- Chamorro
- Native Hawaiian
- Samoan
- Tongan
- Some other Pacific Islander (please specify):
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- White:
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- White European
- Middle Eastern/North African
- Some other White (please specify):
- Some other race/ethnicity (please specify):
- Prefer not to answer
Additionally, state law establishes a Health Data Committee within the Department of Health and Human Services “to direct a statewide effort to collect, analyze, and distribute health care data to facilitate the promotion and accessibility of quality and cost-effective health care and also to facilitate interaction among those with concern for health care issue.” Section 26B-1-413
Another law establishes the Office of Health Equity within the Department of Health and Human Services, which may “promote and coordinate the research, data production, dissemination, education, and health promotion activities … that relate to a multicultural or minority health issue.” Section 26B-7-114
