During the past two decades the overall health of the nation has improved. However, the
dramatic disparities in the morbidity and mortality experienced by African Americans …

During the past decade, hundreds of articles have been published documenting the
existence of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care—a data deluge that has …

I n spite of significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of most chronic diseases,
there is evidence that racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive lower quality of care than …

Former Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher alerted the nation to the gross disparities in
health that exist in this country and pushed for elimination of disparities as a highprofile …

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Disparities in health status and healthcare delivery have been documented in the United
States throughout most of the past two centuries (1–3). More recently, the Institute of …

Health disparities have dominated recent discourse among public health and medical
researchers. Ever since the United States began to compile health statistics, differences in …

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 …

Abstract The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality submitted the first annual
National Healthcare Disparities Report to Congress in December, 2003. This first report will …

In early 2007, the Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Disparities to
increase the visibility of racial and ethnic health disparities as a national problem, to further …