Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All

by Health and Medicine Division

Racial and ethnic inequities in health and health care impact individual well-being, contribute to millions of premature deaths, and cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Addressing these inequities is vital to improving the health of the nation's most disadvantaged communities--and will also help to achieve optimal health for all. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine examined these inequities in Unequal Treatment: Confronting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309721555
• ISBN13: 9780309721554
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 374 Pages