Disparities, Inefficiency, and Competition in Health Care

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran

Clinical care and health disparities.

Health disparities, also known as health inequities, are systematic and potentially remediable differences in one or more aspects of health across population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically. This topic has been the subject of research stretching back at least decades. Reports and studies have delved into how inequities develop in different societies and...

Accountable care organizations and health care disparities.

UNDER SECTION 3022 OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is tasked with developing and testing accountable care organizations (ACOs). The goal of ACOs is to group hospitals and physician practices together to facilitate and incentivize quality improvement and cost containment—critical steps for US health care. However, careful consideration and monitoring duri...

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

T he Agency for Health Care Research and Quality will soon release its annual report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. In the three years since that report first appeared, there has been some slow improvement in some areas for some ethnic groups. But there is still troubling evidence that racial and ethnic disparities still pervade health care in the U.S. despite many efforts to ...

Disparities in health and health care in Myanmar

Myanmar (Burma) is undergoing a complex political and economic transformation, from a long civil war and military regime to a peace process and democratisation. Since 2011, the Myanmar Ministry of Health has started to rehabilitate the fragile health system, setting the goal of achieving universal health coverage by 2030. To achieve this target, Myanmar will have to face substantial challenges;...