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.

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Differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services.

Descriptor ID	D054625
MeSH Number(s)	N04.590.374.380 N05.300.493
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

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Healthcare Disparities".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Patient Care Management [N04.590]
Delivery of Health Care [N04.590.374]
Healthcare Disparities [N04.590.374.380]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Healthcare Disparities [N05.300.493]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Healthcare Disparities".

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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.

Bar chart showing 303 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 38 publications in 2024

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2007	2	0	2
2008	4	4	8
2009	6	5	11
2010	11	3	14
2011	3	5	8
2012	7	2	9
2013	7	5	12
2014	5	3	8
2015	8	5	13
2016	13	6	19
2017	15	7	22
2018	14	4	18
2019	15	1	16
2020	22	5	27
2021	17	13	30
2022	5	13	18
2023	11	11	22
2024	13	25	38
2025	7	1	8

Below are the most recent publications written about "Healthcare Disparities" by people in Profiles.

Pana TA, Mamas MA, Myint PK, Dawson DK. Sex differences in myocardial infarction care and outcomes: a longitudinal Scottish National Data-Linkage Study. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2025 Jun 03; 32(8):696-707.

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Bai P, Burt SS, Woodward MA, Haber S, Newman-Casey PA, Henderer JD, Chan RVP, Chen A. Federally Qualified Health Centers as a Model to Improve Vision Health: A Systematic Review. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2025 Mar 01; 143(3):242-251.

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Washington-Plaskett T, Gilman JP, Quinn E, Zombeck S, Balady G. Evaluating for Health Equity in a Safety Net Hospital: Socioeconomic Status, Adherence, and Outcomes in Cardiac Rehabilitation. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2025 03 01; 45(2):110-117.

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Williams MM, Smith NR, Uyl-de Groot CA, den Uil CA, Ross JS, Mohamed MO, Mamas MA, Banerjee A, Ko DT, Landon B, Cram P. Variations in the Medical Device Authorization and Reimbursement Landscape: A Case Study of 2 Cardiovascular Devices Across 4 Countries. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2025 Apr; 18(4):e011636.

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Biswas R, Wijeratne T, Zelenak K, Huasen BB, Iacobucci M, Killingsworth MC, Beran RG, Gebreyohanns M, Sekhar A, Khurana D, Nguyen TN, Jabbour PM, Bhaskar SMM. Disparities in Access to Reperfusion Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke (DARTS): A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Geographical Factors. CNS Drugs. 2025 Apr; 39(4):417-442.

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El Khoury CJ, Freedland SJ, Gandhi K, Keith SW, Nikita N, Shaver A, Sharma S, Kelly WMK, Lu-Yao G. Disparities in the utilization of magnetic resonance imaging for prostate cancer detection: a population-based study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Feb 01; 117(2):270-278.

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Firoz A, Remer D, Zhao H, Lu X, Hamad E. Racial and ethnic disparities on the heart transplant waiting list. Int J Cardiol. 2025 Mar 15; 423:132971.

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Elbayomy A, Kim J, Ammanuel S, Mohis M, Koszewski I, Ahmed A. Socioeconomic Disparities in the Utilization of Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery: A Retrospective Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample. World Neurosurg. 2025 02; 194:123472.

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DerSarkissian M, Arondekar B, Gupta D, Ivanova J, Niyazov A, Zanardo E, Guo T, Wang J, Duh MS, Freedland SJ. Racial Differences in Survival and Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Medicaid-Insured Adults With Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2025 Apr; 23(2):102291.

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Stephens CQ, Yap A, Vu L, Saito JM, Barry D, Shui AM, Cockrell H, Cairo S, Wakeman D, Berman L, Greenberg S, Linden AF, Kohler J, Tsao K, Wilson NA. Comparative Analysis of Indices for Social Determinants of Health in Pediatric Surgical Populations. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 12 02; 7(12):e2449672.

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