Master in Food Ethics and Law

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

Contact

  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"Understanding and Mitigating Health Inequities — Past, Current, and Future Directions"

The New England Journal of Medicine

Over the past half-century, understanding of health and health care disparities in the United States — including underlying social, clinical, and system-level contributors — has in-creased.  Yet  disparities  persist.  Eliminating health disparities will require  a  movement  away  from  disparities  as  the  focus  of  re-search  and  toward  a  research  agenda centered on achieving ra-cial  equity  by  dismantling  struc-tural racism.