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The Public-Sector Response To Disparities

PROLOGUE: One might think that by now, surely everyone knows that some people in this country are receiving worse health care than others, and that those receiving less and poorer-quality care are often members of minority racial and ethnic groups. These problems are not new, although they are receiving renewed recognition and attention. The Institute of Medicine’s Unequal Treatment report came out in 2002, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released the first National Healthcare Disparities Report the following year, documenting measurable differences in the levels of care received by some populations, even as they reported improvements in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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