The National Healthcare Disparities Report conceptual framework is a matrix consisting of three dimensions:
Attributes of health care that will be examined in the report include Access to Care, Receipt of Care, and Quality of Care:
Patients' needs that will be examined in the report include Staying Healthy, Getting Better, Living with Illness or Disability, and End of Life Care. Disparities that will be examined in the report include Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Socioeconomic Disparities. Underneath this conceptual framework is a representation of Health Status and Healthcare Need to indicate that disparities in healthcare need to be interpreted in the context of disparities in health.