Objectives To better understand the causes of racial disparities in health care, we reviewed
and synthesized existing evidence related to disparities in the “equal access” Veterans …

Purpose: The cause of racial disparities in the use of invasive cardiac procedures remains
unclear. To summarize, evaluate, and clarify gaps in the literature, studies examining racial …

Background Epidemiologic studies have reported differences in the use of cardiovascular
procedures according to the race and sex of the patient. Whether the differences stem from …

Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health care quality have been extensively
documented. Recently, the elimination of disparities in health care has become the focus of …

CONTEXT: While pervasive racial and ethnic inequalities in access to care and health status
have been documented, potential underlying causes, such as patients' perceptions of their …

Race and socioeconomic status (SES) health disparities imply massive impact in terms of
unequal suffering and dramatic social and economic costs. It is clear that status differences …

Objectives. Optimistic predictions for the Healthy People 2010 goals of eliminating
racial/ethnic disparities in health have been made based on absolute improvements in life …

Background Several studies have reported that black patients are less likely than white
patients to undergo cardiac catheterization after acute myocardial infarction. The role of the …

Evidence revealing racial and socioeconomic disparities in health has long been available
and continues to accumulate. Among those that are now well documented are Black-white …

Substantial evidence has accumulated supporting a causal link between childhood
adversity and risk for poor health years and even decades later. One interpretation of this …