Compiling the evidence: The national healthcare disparities reports

Health Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 376-387

  Moy, Ernest ^a   Dayton, Elizabeth ^b   Clancy, Carolyn M ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^b Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHICKENPOX; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIPHTHERIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT MORTALITY; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEASLES; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MUMPS; NEGRO; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RUBELLA; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TETANUS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17244375376     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.376     Document Type: Review

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