Shining the Light on Parity and Disparity in Childhood Asthma Care.

We grew up in an area of the United States with racial inequality, where white and black persons experience disparate opportunities for community inclusion, education, employment, wealth, and wellbeing. As general pediatricians, we felt it was our duty to decrease the impact of these disparities on the health of our patients. Unfortunately, we continue to witness differences by race in the survival, access to care, use of health services, and the development and control of chronic conditions in children. These racial disparities have been reported repeatedly in children throughout the United States for decades. 1