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 424 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 35 publications in 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2004	0	3	3
2007	3	4	7
2008	9	4	13
2009	10	7	17
2010	11	8	19
2011	16	7	23
2012	15	4	19
2013	14	4	18
2014	21	7	28
2015	19	12	31
2016	20	9	29
2017	28	7	35
2018	13	10	23
2019	27	4	31
2020	17	4	21
2021	11	11	22
2022	3	11	14
2023	4	9	13
2024	15	15	30
2025	24	4	28

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Thind BS, Maddalena M, Baqai W, Frencher SK, Jih WW. Evaluating the Impact of an eConsult Platform on Specialty Care Access for Medicaid Patients. J Am Board Fam Med. 2025 Sep 15; 38(3):592-598.

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Akinniyi O, Dixon J, Aina J, Weaks F, Saleh GA, Rahman MM, Meeker T, Trivedi H, Gichoya JW, Khalifa F. The role of AI for improved management of breast cancer: Enhanced diagnosis and health disparity mitigation. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2025 Dec; 272:109036.

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Li F, Gaskov BK, McCormick TJ, Katz AR, Felton DJ. Disaggregating Office of Management and Budget Race/Ethnicity Data to Examine Racial Disparities in Late-Stage HIV Diagnosis, Hawaii, 2010-2022. Am J Public Health. 2025 Oct; 115(10):1671-1680.

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Bertini A, Tylecki A, Stephens A, Finocchiaro A, Vigan? S, Cusmano N, Dinesh A, Guivatchian E, Lughezzani G, Buffi N, Di Trapani E, Ficarra V, Briganti A, Salonia A, Montorsi F, Sood A, Rogers C, Abdollah F. Socioeconomic Disparities in Prostate Cancer Presentation: The Impact of ADI on Prostate Cancer Stage at Diagnosis. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2025 Dec; 23(6):102418.

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Xu H, Li S, Bowblis JR, Pappadis MR, Kuo YF, Goodwin JS. Medicaid Payments and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimer Disease Special Care Units. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Aug 01; 8(8):e2525057.

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Bertini A, Cirulli GO, Stephens A, Finocchiaro A, Vigan? S, Lughezzani G, Buffi N, Di Trapani E, Ficarra V, Salonia A, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Sood A, Rogers C, Abdollah F. Socioeconomic disparities in prostate cancer screening: the impact of the Area Deprivation Index on PSA screening frequency. BJU Int. 2025 Nov; 136(5):818-825.

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Brown DR, Cyr DD, Wruck L, Stefano TA, Mehri N, Bursac Z, Munoz R, Baum MK, Fluney E, Bhoite P, Garba NA, Anderson FW, Fonseca HR, Assaf S, Perreira KM. COVID-19 prevention is shaped by polysocial risk: A cross-sectional study of vaccination and testing disparities in underserved populations. PLoS One. 2025; 20(7):e0328779.

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Dunn MR, Niu H, Li D, Emerson MA, Thompson CA, Nichols HB, Roberson ML, Wheeler SB, Hyslop T, Elston Lafata J, Troester MA. Applying a Novel Measure of Community-Level Healthcare Access to Assess Breast Cancer Care Timeliness. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Jul 01; 34(7):1199-1209.

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Finocchiaro A, Tylecki A, Vigan? S, Bertini A, Ficarra V, Di Trapani E, Salonia A, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Lughezzani G, Buffi N, Sood A, Rogers C, Abdollah F. Socioeconomic disparities and bladder cancer stage at diagnosis: a statewide cohort analysis. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2025 Jul 01; 9(4).

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Shastry S, Carpenter J, Krotulski A, Brent J, Wax P, Aldy K, Campleman S, Culbreth R, Falise A, Hughes A, Hendrickson RG, Amaducci A, Judge B, Meaden C, Calello DP, Buchanan J, Shulman J, Levine M, Schwarz E, Manini AF. Disparities in Treatment and Referral After an Opioid Overdose Among Emergency Department Patients. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 07 01; 8(7):e2518569.

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