 Healthcare Disparities
"Healthcare Disparities" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services.
| Descriptor ID |
D054625
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.374.380 N05.300.493
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| Concept/Terms |
Healthcare Disparities- Healthcare Disparities
- Disparity, Healthcare
- Health Care Inequalities
- Health Care Inequality
- Inequalities, Health Care
- Inequality, Health Care
- Healthcare Disparity
- Healthcare Inequalities
- Healthcare Inequality
- Inequalities, Healthcare
- Inequality, Healthcare
- Disparities, Healthcare
- Health Care Disparities
- Disparities, Health Care
- Disparity, Health Care
- Health Care Disparity
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Healthcare Disparities" by people in this website by year, and whether "Healthcare Disparities" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2008 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2009 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2010 | 9 | 7 | 16 | | 2011 | 14 | 5 | 19 | | 2012 | 13 | 5 | 18 | | 2013 | 9 | 9 | 18 | | 2014 | 18 | 14 | 32 | | 2015 | 10 | 7 | 17 | | 2016 | 12 | 8 | 20 | | 2017 | 30 | 6 | 36 | | 2018 | 18 | 10 | 28 | | 2019 | 20 | 11 | 31 | | 2020 | 23 | 14 | 37 | | 2021 | 22 | 16 | 38 | | 2022 | 5 | 18 | 23 | | 2023 | 10 | 12 | 22 | | 2024 | 22 | 29 | 51 | | 2025 | 38 | 12 | 50 | | 2026 | 12 | 2 | 14 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Healthcare Disparities" by people in Profiles.
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Lensink-Vasan M, Wham C, Nicke D, Espinoza I, Duenas J, Kuna EM, Sillau S, Farcas A, Dylla L. Association between race, ethnicity, and sex with prehospital identification and outcomes of patients with stroke. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2026 Aug; 35(8):108696.
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Gorbatov ML, Arizpe A, David EA, Liu L, Cockburn M, Farias AJ. Racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of guideline-concordant treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Causes Control. 2026 Jul 01; 37(7).
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Ford CD, Cameron NA, Clark D, Derington CG, Hardy ST, Mattei J, Yarrington CD, Zoghby ZM, Garovic VD. Rural Health and Health Disparities in Hypertension Management: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Hypertension. 2026 Aug; 83(8):e00263.
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Garcia-Creighton E, Thapar M, Felan NA, Garcia-Hernandez S, Tietbohl C, Kohn LL. Racially Minoritized Families' Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators to Pediatric Dermatology Care. JAMA Dermatol. 2026 Jun 01; 162(6):583-590.
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Weld JK, Day RT, Alizadeh F, Blossom J, Bailey D, Worthington S, Liu J, Ward VL, Teele SA, Newburger JW, Thiagarajan RR, Bucholz EM, Moynihan KM. Geospatial Access to Pediatric Cardiac and Cardiac-Surgical Services by Neighborhood-Level Determinants of Health. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 05 19; 15(10):e044518.
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Gangavati A, Johnson KS, Platt A, Olsen M, Durant RW, Ejem D, Bakitas M, Dolor R, Williams-Bryant SN, Barrett N, Elk R, Quest T, Hasan M, Bethea K, Rhodes R. Disparities in Advance Care Planning: Did COVID-19 Change Anything? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 06; 74(6):1722-1728.
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Achey RL, Manangan A, Fujii Y, Makhlouf M, Chekuri B, Gillespie E, O'Connor T, Bain M, Moore NZ, Hussain MS, Walker LR, Tee Lewis PG. Increasing risk of stroke with increased climate vulnerability: Assessing stroke burden and access to health care according to the climate vulnerability index in the United States. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2026 May; 35(5):108632.
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Puello M, Trivedi P, Kerrigan K, Walters A, Bhaumik D, Lennarson P, Callen AL. Disparities in Access to Specialized Care for Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: A Comparative Cohort Study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2026 Apr 02; 47(4):890-895.
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Kumarendran B, Cherrington E, Bandyopadhyay S, Crowe F, Machaczek KK, Brown L, Campbell N, Jordan G, Pope MA, Antonovic M, Taylor M, W N, Mahamud A, Chandan JS, Griffiths SL. Co-STARS: a feasibility evaluation of a co-produced mental health literacy training package to reduce mental health inequities for Black young people in underserved communities - study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with an external pilot, process evaluation and economic analysis. BMJ Open. 2026 Mar 18; 16(3):e103120.
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Cotter JM, Hall M, Hersh AL, Shapiro DJ, Lipsett SC, Gerber JS, Cogen JD, Brogan TV, Blaschke AJ, Ambroggio L, Neuman MI. Differences in antibiotic treatment for children hospitalized with pneumonia. J Hosp Med. 2026 Jul; 21(7):749-757.
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