Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to services, especially for underserved populations and marginalized groups. Equity and equality in healthcare are ...

No one can deny that health inequities are a global issue. The United States, despite decades of progress, has one of the highest rates of health disparities in the world. Our health care system is ...

WebMD: Health disparities is a relatively new field. What’s its focus and purpose? Pérez-Stable: In health outcomes, poor people do worse than people with more resources. It was observed 40 years ago ...

I’ve experienced the reality of health disparities firsthand. Growing up in a low-income, predominantly Black neighborhood in Boston during the 60s and 70s, my family didn’t have access, or, frankly, ...

Cross-sectional MEPS/NHANES and KHPS/Korean NHANES analyses stratified adults ≥18 years by income deciles to compare six ...

Health inequities in the U.S. currently cost $320 billion annually and could balloon to $1 trillion by 2040, as the population becomes less white, per-capita spending increases, and Medicaid ...

Evolving literature suggests that disparities in prostate cancer outcomes are reduced or eliminated when patients undergoing definitive radiation receive equitable access to high-level, quality care.

Health disparities and health inequities are differences between the health outcomes of Whites and people of color in terms of length of life, quality of life, and social well-being. In the United ...

After George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, state governments and our health care system have increased attention to racism and its impact on health equity. There has also been heightened awareness that ...

As the national organization representing nearly 50,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention, and research, ASCO supports effective ...

Ruth Enid Zambrana ([email protected]), University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. David R. Williams, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Research related to racism and health has evolved ...