The following health conditions have been chosen as national targets, and have been adopted by S.C.,
for elimination of disparities by the year 2010 due to their long-standing differences in morbidity and
mortality by race and ethnicity:
• Infant Mortality
• Cancer Screening and Management
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Diabetes
• HIV Infection/AIDS
• Immunizations

In Spartanburg County, marked health disparities by race are evident. These include:
• Mortality rates for heart disease
• Mortality rates for diabetes
• Infant mortality rates
• HIV / AIDS rates
• Stroke mortality rates
• Breast cancer incidence rates
• Breast cancer mortality rates

Trend data for these conditions are illustrated in figures 14 – 20, indicating that disparity by race is clear for each measure.