GAPS IN HEALTHCARE FOR MINORITIES

Gaps in Healthcare for minorities

Gaps in Healthcare for minorities

Health disparities and research related to this topic have been an important concern in medical sociology for decades, but the term health disparities has become more central in medical sociology as well as in public health and medicine more broadly during the past decade. Sometimes the research area is also known as health inequalities, especially outside the United States. Within the United States, this area of research has received more attention because a reduction in health disparities has been listed as one of the major goals of the Healthy ...