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Racial inequity limits access to surgery for children

The number of surgical procedures performed on Black, Latino and Asian children is significantly lower than among white children in the United States, a UT Southwestern study has found. These differences very likely reflect an inequality in access to surgical care.

The study, published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, examined surgery data for more than 200,000 children from the 1999-2018 National Health Interview Surveys.

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