Incorporating the effects of health into an analysis of economic disparities in America dramatically affects our understanding of wealth levels across groups--particularly across races.

A true public health solution to inadequate care--one that seeks to maximize the health of all Americans--would more properly target all underserved populations, irrespective of group membership.

Enhancing health care for racial and ethnic minorities must include creative solutions.

Arecent study on health care disparities provides the latest comprehensive summary of what can be measured, if not a practical guide to what we could, or should, do about it.

Atrue public health solution to inadequate care would focus resources on improving the quality of care and self-care regardless of race.

Many experts today insist that a patient’s race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. The notion that physicians are biased against minorities––overtly or subtly––has acquired considerable weight in both academic literature and the popular press. In their new book The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006), authors...

Many experts today insist that race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with patients and that a black patient will get inferior care. Is this true?

The authors of this book conclude that differences in treatment vary by race but not because of it.