Unequal Treatment:Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care




The Sounds of Science from the National Academies show

Summary: Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. The podcast provides a brief glimpse at how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities.