Executive summary The Stanford–Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis
was formed in response to soaring opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the USA and …

Background Racism constitutes a barrier towards achieving equitable healthcare as
documented in research showing unequal processes of delivering, accessing, and receiving …

Large language models (LLMs) are being integrated into healthcare systems; but these
models may recapitulate harmful, race-based medicine. The objective of this study is to …

Differences in health outcomes across racial groups are among the most commonly reported
findings in health disparities research. Often, these studies do not explicitly connect …

Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the
late nineteenth century to the present, introducing the main models of disability theory and …

Health care providers hold negative explicit and implicit biases against marginalized groups
of people such as racial and ethnic minoritized populations. These biases permeate the …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately
affected racial and ethnic minority groups, with high rates of death in African American …

The use of machine learning (ML) in healthcare raises numerous ethical concerns,
especially as models can amplify existing health inequities. Here, we outline ethical …

Despite our many differences, one superordinate category we all belong to is 'humans'. To
strip away or overlook others' humanity, then, is to mark them as 'other'and, typically,'less …

How Structural Racism Works — Racist Policies as a Root Cause of US Racial Health Inequities
| New England Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine …