Health disparities have these properties to negatively impact various subsets of the population, as they have systematically experienced multiple layers of socioeconomic barriers to health. It should always be remembered that health care providers must work collaboratively to achieve certain goals to mitigate the gaps that existed between health care. According to experts, internal professional collaboration is needed for healthcare providers to support patients and minimize existing health disparities in public health (Vanderbilt, Dail, & Jaberi, 2015). If we take the United States into account, then we can find that the health population marks an uneven continuum, ranging from healthy to unhealthy dimensions. It should be noted that the health system depends largely on factors such as income, race, and geographic location. According to the report, it can be argued that public health research policy and practice are subsequently based on disparities such as life expectancy, risk factors, morbidity and quality of life in various sectors of the population. Barriers that are linked to religion, socioeconomic status, mental health, gender, geographic orientation, sexual orientation make health disparities even more difficult. There are snippets of evidence that the United States is sorely plagued with inadequate interprofessional collaborations and comprehensive teamwork, and this points to inequality in health care. Health disparities are a living truth among underserved communities and can be seen primarily in the United States health sector, and therefore it is impossible for any one health professional to handle this impending national crisis alone (Vanderbilt, Dail and Jaberi, 2015).

Health care disparities are not new and create inequalities across multiple layers of our society. These disparities are often viewed through the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, age, and other social factors. Historically, underserved groups have had higher rates of chronic disease, premature death, and other well-being metrics. Also noted is the reduction in resources and demand for health care, ranging from emergency treatment of acute illnesses to routine check-ups and screenings and suggested therapies (Reducing Health Disparities in Undertended Populations, 2021). It should be noted that health educators share a social responsibility to teach medical students about the social determinants of health and health care disparities, and subsequently encourage medical students to undertake residencies in primary care and medical practice in underserved communities. It has been estimated that more than 57 million people reside in nearly 5,864 designated primary care shortage areas in the United States and experience negative treatment by health care. For example, the shortage of primary care physicians in four primary care specialties in these urban and rural communities: general or family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Thus, experts confirmed that the United States tends to face a severe shortage of primary care physicians, leading to further reductions in access to primary care services for medically underserved individuals or communities (VanderWielen, Vanderbilt, and Steven H. Crossman, 2015).

Health professional students care about these underserved communities and try to take social responsibilities to undermine the emerging problems of the health sectors. They are so inclined because during their education and training they are highly exposed to underserved populations and therefore feel an urgency to take into account certain social determinants of health. Students need to be encouraged to seek primary care in the health sector and provided with training opportunities so that they can efficiently provide health care in underserved communities (VanderWielen, Vanderbilt, & Steven H. Crossman, 2015).