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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| 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 | 13 | 31 | | 2015 | 10 | 7 | 17 | | 2016 | 13 | 8 | 21 | | 2017 | 30 | 6 | 36 | | 2018 | 19 | 10 | 29 | | 2019 | 19 | 11 | 30 | | 2020 | 24 | 15 | 39 | | 2021 | 22 | 16 | 38 | | 2022 | 5 | 18 | 23 | | 2023 | 10 | 12 | 22 | | 2024 | 23 | 30 | 53 | | 2025 | 36 | 11 | 47 | | 2026 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Healthcare Disparities" by people in Profiles.
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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 May 19; 15(10):e044518.
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McNicholas C, Memmel L, Kaplan C, Hwang Y, Crane L, Orso R, Harshberger K, Parker RL, Collins A, Conageski C, Sheth S, Kuroki L, Coleman J, Sutton E, Jennings A, Aviki E, Fitzpatrick M, Hibler K, Ripkin A, Mukherjee M. Addressing Cervical Cancer Screening Disparities: At-Home Self-Collection Among LGBQ+ Populations. Cancer Control. 2026 Jan-Dec; 33:10732748261448263.
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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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Berl MM, Wagner J, Caraway A, Loblein H, Novotny EJ, Patrick K, Ostendorf AP, Alexander AL, Eschbach KL, Depositario-Cabacar DF, Vu TA, Oluigbo C, Karia SR, Karakas C, Wong-Kisiel LC, Romanowski EF, McNamara NA, Bolton J, Ailion A, Tatachar P, Pichon PD, Shrey DW, Singh RK, Coryell J, Lin JJ, Koop J, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Auguste K, Bernardo D, Ciliberto MA, Reddy SB, Ganesh A, Arredondo K, Grinspan Z, Nangia S, Samanta D, Marashly A, Armstrong D, Perry MS. Disparities across the pediatric epilepsy surgery journey: Referral, recommendation, and completion from a national consortium. Epilepsia. 2026 Apr; 67(4):1601-1613.
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Rutman L, Richardson T, Auletta J, Balamuth F, Chambers A, Fitzgerald J, Gelvez J, Genzel KA, Grant A, Gunnala V, Hakim H, Hueschen L, Kandil S, Larsen G, Lockwood J, Lucey K, Mack E, Madden K, Niedner M, Paul R, Reddy A, Riggs R, Rosen J, Schafer M, Scott H, Wilkes J, Eisenberg MA. Association between Child Opportunity Index and paediatric sepsis recognition and treatment in a large quality improvement collaborative: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Qual Saf. 2026 Jan 19; 35(2):106-117.
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Heo RJ, Negida A, Barrett MJ, Chrenka EA, Bayram E, Kane JPM, Werner AM, Rossom RC, Wyman-Chick KA. Cholinesterase inhibitors for patients with dementia: Patterns of prescribing and disparities in treatment. J Alzheimers Dis. 2026 Feb; 109(4):1917-1924.
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Terhune EA, Dagne MB, Barsoum M, Viswanathan M, Ali R, Welch V, Pizarro AB, Sathe N, Duque T, Francis D, Rizvi A, Riddle D, Turner RW, Baker TA, Heyn PC. Defining racial health equity: an integrative analysis of terminology and conceptualizations. J Clin Epidemiol. 2026 Feb; 190:112103.
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Hauschildt KE, Thornton JD, Brown C, Hope AA, Jain S, Valley TS, Aslakson RA, Carlton EF, Iwashyna TJ, Mikkelsen M, Boen C, Dzeng E, Falvey J, George N, Hotchkin D, Khandelwal N, Khatri UG, McPeake J, Nadig NR, Oyesanya TO, Amiri I, Ashana DC. A Research Agenda to Mitigate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Critical Care Medicine: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Dec; 211(12):2268-2288.
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