Healing the past, reimagining the present, investing in the future: What should be the role of race as a proxy covariate in health economics informed health care policy?

• Published in: Health economics Vol. 31; no. 10; pp. 2115 - 2119
• Main Author: Briggs, Andrew H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: York Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.10.2022
• Subjects: Bias; Healing; Health care policy; health economic evaluation; Health economics; Race; racial health disparities; Racial inequality; Risk assessment; risk assessment algorithms; Scientific community; Value
• ISSN: 1057-9230; 1099-1050; 1099-1050
• DOI: 10.1002/hec.4577

In this perspective, the assertion that race‐free risk assessment would harm patients of all races is critiqued from the viewpoint that race is not just another covariate in our arsenal. Although race may be associated with outcome, it is nevertheless a proxy for a myriad of other potential explanat...