Reducing Racial Health Care Disparities

Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

This report reviews key principles of quality (as it relates to the overall quality of the health care system and individual approaches to quality improvement); reviews evidence of the existence and root causes of racial and ethnic health disparities and recommendations to address them; and discusses strategies by which the quality and cultural competence movements could be linked. In particula...

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

T he Agency for Health Care Research and Quality will soon release its annual report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. In the three years since that report first appeared, there has been some slow improvement in some areas for some ethnic groups. But there is still troubling evidence that racial and ethnic disparities still pervade health care in the U.S. despite many efforts to ...

Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care: an integral part of quality improvement scholarship.

students and trainees that report strategies for quality improvement and patient safety Students and trainees provide a fresh perspective and a critical lens on quality and safety in patient care. That having been said, the editors of QSHC will apply the same rigorous review criteria to these submissions that apply to all manuscripts on these topics. The editorial expectation of excellent schol...

Health care quality-improvement approaches to reducing child health disparities.

Relatively few quality-improvement efforts have been aimed at reducing differences in children's care and outcomes across race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and insurance status. To inform quality-improvement efforts to reduce child health disparities, we summarize lessons learned from the adult disparities-intervention literature, identify interventions that have reduced disparities in ...

Does Patient-Centered Care affect Racial Disparities in Health?