Health Affairs January 14, 2021
The quest for health equity is not new. More than a century ago, sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois observed that the apparent indifference of American society to racial differences in health and illness was more disturbing than the disparities themselves: “The most difficult social problem in the matter of Negro health is the peculiar attitude of the nation toward the well-being of the race.” Today we would frame that “peculiar attitude” as the presence (or absence) of a commitment to health equity. This commitment has evolved slowly in the decades since Du Bois’s research, but it has taken on energy in recent months in response to both the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on certain racial and ethnic...
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