TY - JOUR
T1 - Health Care Disparities in Congenital Cardiology
T2 - Considerations Through the Lens of an Interventional Cardiologist
AU - Bauser-Heaton, Holly
AU - Aggarwal, Varun
AU - Graziano, Joseph N.
AU - Ligon, R. Allen
AU - Keeshan, Britton
AU - Stapleton, Gary
AU - Sutton, Nicole J.
AU - Fleming, Gregory
AU - El-Said, Howaida
AU - Kim, Dennis
AU - Ing, Frank F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - When resources in a society are dispersed unevenly, generally through allocation standards, distinct patterns emerge along lines of socially defined categories of people. Power, religion, kinship, prestige, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class all play a role in determining who has access to social goods in society. In most cases, social inequality refers to a lack of equality of outcome, but it can also refer to a lack of equality of access to opportunity. Unfortunately, health care is not immune to these social disparities and/or inequalities. These health care disparities in interventional cardiology were recently brought to the forefront by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) as a major focus of 2020-2021. In a recent publication, unique factors leading to disparities were reported to exist among the subsections of interventional cardiology. The congenital heart disease council of SCAI created a task force to further investigate the unique challenges and disparities impacting the practice of congenital heart disease and pediatric cardiology.
AB - When resources in a society are dispersed unevenly, generally through allocation standards, distinct patterns emerge along lines of socially defined categories of people. Power, religion, kinship, prestige, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class all play a role in determining who has access to social goods in society. In most cases, social inequality refers to a lack of equality of outcome, but it can also refer to a lack of equality of access to opportunity. Unfortunately, health care is not immune to these social disparities and/or inequalities. These health care disparities in interventional cardiology were recently brought to the forefront by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) as a major focus of 2020-2021. In a recent publication, unique factors leading to disparities were reported to exist among the subsections of interventional cardiology. The congenital heart disease council of SCAI created a task force to further investigate the unique challenges and disparities impacting the practice of congenital heart disease and pediatric cardiology.
KW - congenital heart disease
KW - congenital interventional cardiology
KW - disparities
KW - diversity, equity, and inclusion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jscai.2022.100388
DO - 10.1016/j.jscai.2022.100388
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85161923359
SN - 2772-9303
VL - 1
JO - Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
JF - Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
IS - 5
M1 - 100388
ER -