Surgical Disparities: A Comprehensive Review and New Conceptual Framework

Affiliations

¹ Center for Surgery and Public Health: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
² National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
³ Center for Surgery and Public Health: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Dow University of Health Sciences Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
⁵ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA.
⁷ Center for Surgery and Public Health: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Electronic address: ahhaider@partners.org.

Review

Maya J Torain et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;223(2):408-18.

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.04.047. Epub 2016 Jun 10.

¹ Center for Surgery and Public Health: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
² National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
³ Center for Surgery and Public Health: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Dow University of Health Sciences Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
⁵ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA.
⁷ Center for Surgery and Public Health: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Electronic address: ahhaider@partners.org.

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Comment in

Invited Commentary: Meeting Our Obligation to Equal Surgical Care for All.
Jenkins PC, Koniaris LG, Stain SC. Jenkins PC, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2016 Aug;223(2):418. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.05.007. J Am Coll Surg. 2016. PMID: 27456247 No abstract available.