Unequal Treatment at 20: Accelerating Progress Toward Health Care Equity

Racial inequities remain a feature of the US healthcare landscape 20 years after the the former Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) published Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, a landmark report that found widespread racial and ethnic inequities in the quality of health care, even after accounting for access-related factors such as health insurance coverage. This publication summarizes findings from “Unequal Treatment at 20: Accelerating Progress Toward Health Care Equity,” a day-long symposium held at Urban’s headquarters in March 2023 that explored why racial and ethnic inequities in health care have persisted over the past 20 years.