If some populations have access to inferior health care systems, little will be done to enhance health equity.
One of the major challenges for clinicians is the almost complete lack of knowledge about methadone treatment that pervades the medical community.
While access to care is a key component in leveling the health disparities playing field, failure to integrate other dimensions may undermine opportunities to make real progress.
Legal decisions regarding LGBT marriages are not just political and social issues but have medical implications, too.
Efforts to address one dimension of health disparities without addressing the other three, is like making a sandwich without bread.
A recent study shows that clinician bias leads to unequal pain care in children, but clinician avoidance of why this is so is the real problem.
