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ArticleInternal medicine journal2025

Racial equity in healthcare: turning Martin Luther King Jr's dream of racial equality into a 21st century reality.

Louis William Wang

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Article in Internal medicine journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Louis William WangDepartment of Vascular Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Racial equity should be a universal goal in health. Unfortunately, people may not have the same opportunity for good health, but they should have equal rights to good healthcare. Overcoming inequities and improving a sense of diversity, community and belonging for all cultural groups remains an ongoing priority for the health system. This article discusses the different forms of racial inequity that may exist within any given health system, offers examples that may signal its presence within healthcare institutions and highlights interventions that aim to reduce racial inequity at both a systems level and for individual healthcare workers.

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Delivery of Health CareHealthcare DisparitiesHealth EquityRacismHumansequityhealth inequitieshealth systemmedical educationprofessionalismracism

Identifiers

PMID40231727
PMCPMC12155059

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