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 ...

Despite significant advancements in medical technology and public health infrastructure, systemic racism remains a fundamental determinant of health, ...

Despite more than 40 years of healthcare system-based efforts to promote equity, health disparities continue—and have even worsened in some cases. Over time, the definition of health equity has ...

Colleen Murphy is a senior editor at Health. She has extensive experience with interviewing healthcare providers, deciphering medical research, and writing and editing health articles in an ...

President Trump’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are making life difficult for some public health officials, who view eliminating racial disparities as part of their mission. By ...

Health equity has steadily gained focus within the healthcare industry, from racial and ethnic health disparities to gender imbalances in healthcare costs. The business case, as well as the moral ...

A narrative has taken hold that public health has failed the US. We argue instead that the US has chronically failed public health, and nowhere have these failures been more apparent than in rural ...

A look back at what progress the CMS Innovation Center has made on advancing health equity among CMS’s beneficiary populations—and a look forward to its future areas of focus. To meet this objective, ...