Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to services, especially for underserved populations and marginalized groups. Equity and equality in healthcare are ...

Deep-seated racial and ethnic disparities persist in health care across the United States, even in states considered the most progressive, a new report shows. For example, California received a score ...

How do you measure the success of a city? Is it by median income? A growing economy and the number of new jobs? Do you look at cultural diversity, and richness in community culture? Or track ...

Cancer disparities refer to differences in cancer measures between populations. Although cancer can affect anyone, some groups experience disproportionately negative cancer care. Cancer disparities ...

On May 22, 2023, the Associated Press posted a story that inaccurately characterized the University of Alabama at Birmingham's institutional role as it relates to the very real challenges in health ...

We suggest that there are four types of health equity performance measures: data infrastructure, process and outcome measures stratified by subpopulation, process and outcomes measures targeted at ...

New research finds that from neonatal care — to primary care — to emergency medicine, children from racial and ethnic minorities face disparities in the quality of care they receive. And on the ...

I’ve experienced the reality of health disparities firsthand. Growing up in a low-income, predominantly Black neighborhood in Boston during the 60s and 70s, my family didn’t have access, or, frankly, ...

Investments in equity can lead over time to economic growth and prosperity for all Americans. Most agree health disparities are a moral problem. Yet there are disagreements about how to reduce them.

Here are seven public health trends that could significantly shape healthier communities across Maryland in the years ahead.