The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality commissioned the Institute of Medicine establish a committee to provide guidance on the National Healthcare Dispariti

How good is the quality of health care in the United States? Is quality improving? Or is it suffering? While the average person on the street can follow the sta

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differenc

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persis

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is,