PHILADELPHIA — Mitigating disparities in health equity for eye care patients requires community outreach and improvements in health care infrastructure, as well as more understanding of the root causes, according to a speaker here.
“Formally, when we speak about inequity, we are basically saying that there is an ethical component, that there is a measured difference, the difference is avoidable, and the absence of the avoidance is unjust,” Stephen D. McLeod, MD, said during the Irving H. Leopold Lecture at the Wills Eye Conference.
According to McLeod, the conversation