Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Healthcare

A new Commonwealth Fund report evaluates disparities in health and healthcare across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U.S. states. The authors collected data for 25 indicators of health system performance, specifically focusing on health outcomes, access to healthcare, and quality and use of healthcare services for Black, White, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations. The report provides a health system performance “score” for each of the five racial and ethnic groups in every state to make direct comparisons between those groups and between groups in other states.