Reducing Health Care Disparities

For many years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has been committed to finding and promoting ways to reduce racial and ethnic disparities. This issue brief gives a general overview of how the field of health care disparities has evolved in recent years to identify emerging perspectives, progress and current activity, and outstanding needs.

The paper focuses specifically on health care disparities, while recognizing that these are obviously also intertwined with broader efforts to reduce health disparities.