Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.

Some refugees’ illness experiences preclude them from testifying and accurately representing their own interests during asylum adjudication proceedings.

Being marked as an “other” outside of the circle of human concern expresses tension between principles of liberty and equality and exacerbates health inequity.

Ethical obligations to address racial health inequity in American life exist now, just as they did in 1865.

Injustice is endemic to IHS operations when its stewards are forced to defer payment for patients’ nonemergent care.

To achieve health equity, governments can use a variety of tools, including civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence.

A portrait illuminates a metaphor for maldistribution of burden of disease, risk exposure, and long-standing inequity in health laid bare to the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

High-resolution geographic information system tools map all general dentistry and periodontal practice locations as key sources of health inequity.