Expanding the Evidence Base for Health Equity

摘要

In 2002, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published Unequal Treatment, a compilation of studies documenting inequities in healthcare quality among racial and ethnic minority patients. Unequal Treatment made a powerful presentation of the evidence that was impossible to ignore. The report was compelling mainly because all of the patients in the studies summarized in the report were insured and had access to healthcare. The disparities outlined in Unequal Treatment were not caused by a lack of access to healthcare; they essentially resulted from "unequal treatment."