Health equity is one of the biggest challenges the United States healthcare system faces. Although we’ve progressed massively technologically, access to good health care and health related outcomes have not entirely shifted according to demographic composition. These disparities are the consequence of social determinants including income, location, education and institutional injustice, and so on, and they're also made of how medicine treats those whom it treats, and how it treats them as a consequence, as well.
Vaishali Jha (Thu,) studied this question.