Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (with CD), 2003: National Academies Press, Washington.

This report published by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, USA, successfully built a detailed evidence base regarding the complex problem of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare faced by the country in 2003. It is considered to be a landmark was successful in placing the issue of health disparities on the nations health policy agenda.