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US ethnic minority children get worse healthcare, research finds

Researchers have called for broad reform to many aspects of US life and healthcare after reporting that children from ethnic minority groups receive worse quality healthcare, which starts before birth, with less prenatal care for their mothers.

These children received poorer care in paediatric primary care, emergency care, critical and in-patient hospital care, and surgery and also in paediatric subspecialties such as mental health, endocrinology, and palliative care, the researchers reported in two studies in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health .12

“No matter where you look, there are disparities in care of black Americans, Hispanic, Latinx, Asian Americans pretty much every racial and ethnic group that’s not white,” Nia Heard-Garris, a paediatric researcher at Lurie Children’s Hospital of the University of Chicago Feinberg School of Medicine, told NPR News on 18 January.3

The first study, which examined inequities in the quality of paediatric care in the U ....

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