Recent events remind us that deeply embedded inequities in health care access and health
outcomes are rooted in historically white, and male, systems of power. 1, 2 Authors have …

Racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States experience disparities in their
health and health care that arise from a combination of interacting factors, including racism …

198 suggests a disparity in the quality of health care delivered to whites and nonwhites.
According to a 2003 Institute of Medicine report, this disparity cannot be accounted for by …

The US population is becoming increasingly diverse. Racial and ethnic health disparities
and inequities have been extensively documented. As a discipline, family medicine can help …

Much has been written on the existence of racial and ethnic differences in health status and
health care access and quality in the US. Researchers, think tanks, government entities, and …

Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the
beginning of the country. In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were …

FOR decades researchers, journalists, and civil and human rights activists have been writing
about the conflict between America's commitments to equality and racial practices. Myriad …

Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities,
the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care …

(LW) asked why the White babies were plump and with their parents in the room, and the
Black babies were tiny and in incubators. This was my first lesson on disparities in health …

There is no longer a need to define the obvious: health disparities exist. If you are Black,
Latino, Asian, Native American, female, gay, incarcerated, or disabled, you are more likely to …