Promoting health equity with HBCUs: Breaking away from structural racism

Despite efforts to improve the nation's health, not all individuals have access to high-quality health care and major disparities in health outcomes persist. Health care disparities are defined as “racial or ethnic differences in the quality of health care that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention” (Smedley et al, 2003, pp. 3–4). In 2021, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlighted that Black populatio ns experienced the worst quality of care for 43% of quality measures when compared with White groups, and “disparities in all domains of healthcare quality persist” (ES-6).

Source: Nursing Outlook - January 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Roberta Waite, Jessica Varghese, Yolanda VanRiel, Theresa Smith, Gil Singletary, Oren Shtayermman, Brian L. Ragsdale, Nina M. McCune, Catherine Holton, Patricia E. Ferguson, Gina S. Brown, Janice Brewington, Katie Boston-Leary, Kenya Beard Source Type: research