“Most of the health disparities we observe do not arise from differences in healthcare access or delivery but rather from fundamental social, economic, and other underlying structures in play well before anyone gets to the healthcare center,” shares Dr. Tim Bruckner, Professor of Public Health at the University of California Irvine. “The fundamental issues of societal organization, structure and economic distribution of resources leads to these disparities across the board, and they also manifest in the healthcare system.”

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