Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Medical Advancements ...

This brief provides an overview of diversity in clinical trials, disparities in access to novel drug therapies and other treatments, and the implications for ...

The State of Health Disparities in the United States - NCBI

For racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, health disparities take on many forms, including higher rates of chronic disease and premature death ...

Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care - Commonwealth Fund

Large disparities in health care access between white people and members of most other racial and ethnic groups are apparent across states.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Barriers to Timely Medical Care

There are racial and ethnic disparities in access to health care in the US despite national efforts to eliminate them. ... For example, compared ...

Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Disparities in Health care - PMC

First, that perceived discrimination may not explain racial/ethnic differences in use of preventive care services. Second, that lack of medical innovativeness ...

Race, Inequality, and Health | KFF

Major recognition of health disparities began nearly four decades ago. In 1985, the Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and ...

Changes in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care and ...

Prior studies show the introduction of Medicare was associated with increases in health care utilization, and entry into Medicare at age 65 ...

Unequal Treatment Revisited The Current State of Racial and Ethnic ...

Racial and ethnic inequities in health and health care impact individual well-being, contribute to millions of premature deaths, and cost the United States ...

Phase II: Literature Review: Racial Disparities in Use of Selected ...

This report is the second of a three-phase series investigating the prevalence of racial and ethnic disparities in the use of selected medical technologies.

Reducing disparities in health care - American Medical Association

Recent studies have shown that despite the improvements in the overall health of the country, racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of ...

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Medical Advancements ...

Racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes remain persistent in the United States, driven by inequities in access to and utilization of ...

RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE, UPDATED ...

such medical advancements – particularly due to lack of access to care – have not been fully realized. While the factors that cause racial ...

Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare

These disparities have many causes and potential solutions. In the landmark Unequal Treatment report, the Institute of Medicine reviewed and highlighted racial ...

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: A Background and History

Suggested Citation:"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: A Background and History - W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton." Institute of Medicine. 2003.

Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care

Issue: Prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), blacks and Hispanics were more likely than whites to face barriers in access to health care.

Phase I: Disparities in Access to Advanced Medical Procedures in ...

Racial and ethnic healthcare disparities in access to advanced interventions have persisted in the U.S. medical system.

Challenges in Promoting Health Equity and Reducing Disparities in ...

Despite improvements in treatments and technologies to treat CVD, mortality rates exhibit disparities across race, ethnicity, sex, education, geographic ...

Chapter 7: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

Minority Americans have poorer health outcomes than whites from preventable and treatable conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma, cancer, ...

(PDF) Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Care Among ...

We also estimated the gap between non-Hispanic White and the other subgroups for these outcomes. Results We included 596,355 adults, of which 69.7% identified ...

Chapter 10: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

On this last point, research has revealed that minorities may receive less care and lower-quality care than whites, even when confounders such as stage of ...