Tackling Health Disparities in Radiology: A Practical Conceptual Framework

A Framework for Developing Health Equity Initiatives in Radiology

“…Key components of environmental scans include establishing the purpose of the environmental scan, evaluating capacity for the project, creation of a time line and goal setting, stakeholder engagement, determining data requirements, analysis of results, and dissemination of results to key stakeholders [ 4 ]. Importantly, radiologists must recognize that available external data for long-studied indications such as breast and lung cancer screening are more extensive and diverse than for newer advanced imaging techniques such as molecular imaging [ 5 ]. Thus, health equity initiatives being developed for newer techniques may need to leverage examples from pre-existing work for unrelated modalities and indications.…”