Physicians receive lower payments for taking care of Black and Hispanic patients than white patients, according to a new study. Dr. Aaron Schwartz, the study’s lead, explains what may be driving the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Socioeconomic disadvantages may explain a proportion of disparities in health care utilization parameters after ...

As a shy undergraduate at Harvard University in the late sixties, Constance Hilliard butted heads with the stodgy chairman of the history department. Convinced that there were untold stories buried in ...

A new evidence-based framework aims to establish a U.S. industry standard for measuring health equity efforts. Put out by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the white paper has been in ...

Ahead of World Stroke Day, Oct. 29, investigators from the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai have new information on stroke-related health disparities. In a study published in the peer-reviewed ...

Identifying and addressing disparities among people living with lupus ensures communities with the highest burden of disease, like racial and ethnic minorities, receive equitable opportunities for ...

Inequities in treatment intensification is one of the major factors responsible for racial disparities in management of blood pressure (BP), suggests a study conducted in the United States. The study, ...

Racism, xenophobia and discrimination have a profound impact on health but are largely overlooked and erroneously dismissed with low-quality science, according to a series of papers published in the ...

San Francisco Police Department officials struggled to answer questions from the city's Police Commission at a Wednesday meeting when asked to explain how, in a city where Black people make up only 5 ...