Health care practices are influenced by variety of factors. These factors that include social determinants, race and ethnicity, and gender not only affect access to health care but can also affect quality of care and patient outcomes. These are a source of health care disparities. This article acknowledges that these disparities exist in getting optimal care in structural heart disease, reviews the literature and proposes steps that can help reduce these disparities on personal and committee levels.

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确定促进介入心脏病学健康公平的机会：结构性心脏病

医疗保健实践受到多种因素的影响。这些因素包括社会决定因素、种族和民族以及性别，不仅会影响获得医疗保健的机会，还会影响医疗质量和患者治疗结果。这些是医疗保健差异的根源。本文承认在获得结构性心脏病的最佳护理方面存在这些差异，回顾了文献并提出了有助于减少个人和委员会层面的这些差异的步骤。