Disparities In Physician Care: Experiences And Perceptions Of A Multi-Ethnic America
This 2007 Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey of 4,334 randomly selected U.S. adults compared perceptions of the quality of physician care among fourteen racial and ethnic groups with those of whites. On each measure examined, at least five and as many as eleven sub...
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Published in | Health Affairs Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 507 - 517 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Health Affairs
01.03.2008
The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE |
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Summary: | This 2007 Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey of 4,334 randomly selected U.S. adults compared perceptions of the quality of physician care among fourteen racial and ethnic groups with those of whites. On each measure examined, at least five and as many as eleven subgroups perceived their care to be significantly worse than care for whites. In many instances, subgroups were at least fifteen percentage points more negative than whites. This was true for Central/South Americans, Chinese Americans, and Korean Americans on five of seven measures. Many of the differences remained after socioeconomic characteristics and language skills were controlled for. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0278-2715 1544-5208 |
DOI: | 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.507 |