Efforts to eliminate racial disparities in health and health care are a critical national priority, and quantifying and interpreting measures of these disparities are important but challenging parts of that effort. This paper offers five recommendations for producing and interpreting estimates...

We study the factors that affect the utilization of health care services administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its racial differences. Due to data limitation, previous research in this regard mostly only focuses on veterans who are VA users or at least eligible for VA...

In all four of the Articles that form this Symposium, the Authors identify troubling disparities and injustices in our healthcare system and suggest strategies to ameliorate these problems. Sadly, the reforms of the Obama administration will probably do little to address these issues directly....