Chapter 15: Fundamental Causes of Health Disparities

By: Paige Sinsebox, Andrea Rose, Arline Matias, and Chrisunta Palma

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Objectives:

  • Define health disparity
  • Discuss causes of health disparities
  • Explain how public health professionals can examine health disparities

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.