Evolving and fine-tuning methods can help ensure that cost-effectiveness analyses become a force for reducing health disparities, not reinforcing them. This won’t be an easy task.

MAY: I'm terrified. NOGUCHI: Addressing disparities has been a central focus of health care, and especially since the pandemic laid bare how access to care can affect so many aspects of health.

Health disparities research is an expensive parrot squawking the same things heard for years, telling us where disparities exist and why, but not much else. The new head of the N.I.H., Dr. Jay ...

With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), many are beginning to question how the technology will impact health care or minimize the harmful disparities felt by minority groups.

Cancer screening rates also showed disparities, with Cleveland reporting higher rates of prostate cancer (51.3% vs. 41.1% nationally) and breast cancer (81.8% vs. 76.3% nationally).