INTRODUCTION In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration, a pay-for-performance (P4P) program, into Medicare Advantage plans. Previous studies documented racial/ethnic disparities in receipt of care among participants in these plans. The objective of this study was to determine whether P4P incentives have affected these dispar...

Research suggests that significant health disparities exist among the gay and lesbian population in the United States. These disparities impact both the shortand long-term health outcomes of this population. This study first provides a current literature review of available research on gay and lesbian health disparities and organizes these findings according to health topic. The paper then inve...

CONTEXT Public health agencies have identified the elimination of health disparities as a major policy objective. OBJECTIVES The main goals of this study were to assess the magnitude of racial/ethnic disparities in rates of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) incidence in the metropolitan statistical area of Milwaukee, Wis, and determine how those disparities have changed over the peri...

RACIAL DISPARITIES ARE A UBIQUITOUS FEATURE OF THE USmedical landscape,with health care delivery substantially segregated by race/ethnicity. Recent evidence fromhospitals, nursing homes, and physicians’ offices suggests that those caring forminority patients do not perform as well as those who care for nonminority patients, on average. This evidence is troubling but hardly surprising because th...

This article advances the concept of racialized legal status (RLS) as an overlooked dimension of social stratification with implications for racial/ethnic health disparities. We define RLS as a social position based on an ostensibly race-neutral legal classification that disproportionately impacts racial/ethnic minorities. To illustrate the implications of RLS for health and health disparities ...

Pervasive health disparities continue to exist among racial/ethnic minority groups, but the factors related to these disparities have not been fully elucidated. We undertook this prospective cohort study to determine the independent contributions of socioeconomic status (SES), health behaviors, and health insurance in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in mortality and health declines. Our st...

In the fall 2010, East Carolina University's Department of Public Health in the Brody School of Medicine introduced a new graduate certificate online program to its curriculum-the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) program. By the spring 2014, the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) program graduated 20 public health professionals with expertise in ethnic and rural health dispari...

Sex and racial disparities in cardiovascular risk continue to exist, and the risk factors fueling these disparities will require redress. The enormous progress in reducing cardiovascular diseasemortality realized since the 1960s representpublic health and health care improvement successes, yet more progress in reducing the remaining colossal burdenof cardiovascular disease in the United States ...

Scientific and policy debates following new genetic discoveries have been intense and emotional when they have involved questions about the causes of, and solutions for, racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States. The difference in prevalence of diseases, allele frequency and genotype frequency among racial/ethnic groups are well known. The genomic profile for a given disease cou...

We grew up in an area of the United States with racial inequality, where white and black persons experience disparate opportunities for community inclusion, education, employment, wealth, and wellbeing. As general pediatricians, we felt it was our duty to decrease the impact of these disparities on the health of our patients. Unfortunately, we continue to witness differences by race in the surv...