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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Bar chart showing 278 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 40 publications in 2024

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2007	1	0	1
2008	6	0	6
2009	8	3	11
2010	6	2	8
2011	7	7	14
2012	3	4	7
2013	1	4	5
2014	5	9	14
2015	10	4	14
2016	9	6	15
2017	13	4	17
2018	14	3	17
2019	14	6	20
2020	17	8	25
2021	15	10	25
2022	2	5	7
2023	9	7	16
2024	21	19	40
2025	12	2	14
2026	2	0	2

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Patel PB, Hamilton RH, Budhu JA, Belagaje SR, Cooper GE, Rocha Cabrero F, Deb A, Santini VE, Halker R, Fisher TL, Flippen CC, Ighodaro E, Rosendale N, Ramanan VK, Thakur KT, Mohile NA. A Roadmap to Neurologic Health Equity: An AAN Position Statement. Neurology. 2026 Mar 10; 106(5):e214687.

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Farrell CM, Kearney RB, Peddiraju A, Pino EC. Disparities in diagnosis and management of hypertension by incarceration status for patients receiving care in the emergency department. Am J Emerg Med. 2026 May; 103:93-98.

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Ballinger Z, Aidlen J. Metabolic and bariatric surgery for adolescents: Progress and persistent challenges. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2025 Dec; 55(12):101890.

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Kelly LM, Kelly MM, Sabella KA, Ponce Martinez CC, Yonkers KA. Characterizing sociodemographic differences in substance use treatment need and receipt among pregnant women in the U.S. Addict Behav. 2026 Feb; 173:108562.

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Chen EW, Wu WC, Han L, Gandhi PU, Bastian LA, Brandt CA, Mattocks KM, Oen-Hsiao J, Varghese MS. Disparities in Geographic Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Socially Vulnerable Communities. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Oct 21; 14(20):e040815.

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Cooper KM, Patel AK, Colletta A, Mohamed K, Lim N, Wu W, Rajan A, Cheung A, Hasjim BJ, Tesfai K, Ajmera V, Wang K, Deutsch-Link S, Shroff H, Kwong AJ, Devuni D. Gender disparity in access to early liver transplant among patients with alcohol associated liver disease and limited sobriety is mediated by psychosocial factors. Liver Transpl. 2026 Mar 01; 32(3):388-399.

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Kan V, Lapane K, McManus D, Baek J, Darling C, Alcusky M. Racial disparities and trends in anticoagulant use among ambulatory care patients with atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter in the United States from 2007 to 2019. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Oct 03; 25(1):1300.

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Zhang Y, Nguyen TT. Utilization of large-scale electronic health record database to understand social determinants of health disparities in the diabetic patient population with major lower extremity amputation. J Vasc Surg. 2026 01; 83(1):181-189.

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Neary CM, Ong MS, Farmer JR. Sociodemographic drivers of care disparity among patients with inborn errors of immunity. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2025 Dec 01; 37(6):613-618.

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Ballinger Z, Green J, Cleary M, Wong K, Cherng N, Aidlen J. Racial Disparities in Paediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: An MBSAQIP Analysis. Pediatr Obes. 2025 Nov; 20(11):e70045.

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