Racial Disparities — The Need for Research and Action

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Abstract
The Healthy People 2010 initiative has made the reduction of racial disparities a central national health priority,1 but the achievement of this objective requires evidence-based action. The article by Skinner and colleagues in this issue of the Journal 2 expands our understanding of the factors underlying observed differences in the rate of health care utilization among racial subgroups of the U.S. population. This research confirms the findings from the recent report by the Institute of Medicine, entitled Unequal Treatment, 3 not only that racial and ethnic disparities exist, but that the root causes of these disparities in the health care sector are . . .