Health disparities are caused by a multitude of systemic factors often referred to as social determinants of health, including access to safe housing, heathy food, access to health services, transportation, public safety, media and technology, etc.

For example, African American/Black women and Latinas experience lower survival rates from triple-negative breast cancer than White women with the same disease-even with similar access to care, screening mammography, and insurance coverage-due to the lack of specialized screening and lack of viable treatment options ...

Disparity implies a difference of some kind, whereas inequity implies unfairness and injustice.