Widespread health care disparities revealed: Hardships for minority kids start at birth
01/19/24 at 04:00 AM
Widespread health care disparities revealed: Hardships for minority kids start at birth
USA Today, by Adrianna Rodriguez; 1/18/24
Black and Hispanic children receive universally worse medical care than their white peers, starting from the moment they’re born and spanning across all specialties, according to a comprehensive five-year review. ... They found widespread racial and ethnic disparities in care, treatment and health outcomes across all pediatric specialties, including neonatology, primary care, emergency medicine, critical care, surgery, mental health, developmental disabilities, endocrinology and palliative, or end-of-life, care, ...