DATA 
SCIENCE
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HEALTH
EQUITY

By asking how inequity flows through the health system, we can build predictive models and interventions that align with the real-world drivers of injustice. Path-specific fairness helps us design systems that treat patients equitably, not just equally. In this blog post, we walk through a real example that shows how surface-level fairness can reinforce inequities. Then we introduce the idea of causal fairness.