Bomi Kim Hirsch

Over the past 50 years, population health researchers have made significant progress in clarifying the empirical and theoretical relationships between socioeconomic conditions and health disparities,1-3 particularly for social constructs such as race and ethnicity.4 Health disparities, defined as “differences in health or its determinants that adversely affect marginalized or excluded groups,” are the metric to measure progress toward health equity,5, 6 meaning “assurance of the conditions...