Improving overall health equity for people with congenital heart disease requires recognizing the impact of social determinants of health throughout their lifespan. Systemic societal inequities and structural racism impact the health of people with congenital heart disease from prenatal care through adulthood. A new scientific statement suggests strategies to improve equity in congenital heart disease care that include research into implicit and explicit biases, systemic inequities that result in poorer social determinants of health, and examines the population, institutional, systemic and individual level contributors to health disparities.
