Who is playing doctor? - The gap between self-perceived versus professionally diagnosed chronic conditions among the underserved minority

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 883-886

  Bazargan, Mohsen ^a   Bazargan Hejazi, Shahrzad ^a,b   Baker, Richard S ^a,b  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic conditions; Health care utilization; Health perception; Minority; Public housing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; TOOTH DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 28844454168     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. J.Z. Ayanian, A.M. Zaslavsky, J.S. Weissman, E.C. Schneider, and J.A. Ginsburg Undiagnosed hypertension and hypercholesterolemia among uninsured and insured adults in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Am. J. Public Health 93 2003 2051 2054
2. R.S. Baker, M. Bazargan, S. Bazargan-Hejazi, and J.L. Calderon Access to vision care in an urban low-income multiethnic population Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 12 2005 1 12
3. M. Bazargan, S. Bazargan, and R.S. Baker Emergency department utilization, hospital admissions, and physician visits among elderly African American persons Gerontologist 38 1998 25 36
4. M. Bazargan, S. Bazargan-Hejazi, and R.S. Baker Treatment of self-reported depression among Hispanics and African Americans J. Health Care Poor Underserved 16 2005 328 344
5. H. Chung, J. Teresi, and P. Guarnaccia Depressive symptoms and psychiatric distress in low income Asian and Latino primary care patients: prevalence and recognition Commun. Mental Health J. 39 2003 33 46
6. J. Feinglass, C. Nelson, T. Lawther, and R.W. Chang Chronic joint symptoms and prior arthritis diagnosis in community surveys: implications for arthritis prevalence estimates Public Health Rep. 118 2003 230 239
7. R.M. Glass Awareness about depression: important for all physicians JAMA 289 2003 3169 3170
8. J. Hootman, C. Helmick, and S. Schappert Characteristics of chronic arthritis and other rheumatic condition-related ambulatory care visits, United States, 1997 Ann. Epidemiol. 10 2000 1
9. R.C. Kessler, P. Berglund, and O. Demler The epidemiology of major depressive disorder: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) [comment] JAMA 289 2003 3095 3105
10. M.D. Macek, R.J. Manski, C.M. Vargas, and J.F. Moeller Comparing oral health care utilization estimates in the United States across three nationally representative surveys Health Serv. Res. 37 2002 499 521
11. National Council on the A The consequences of untreated hearing loss in older persons ORL Head Neck Nurs. 18 2000 12 16
12. T.L. Skaer, D.A. Sclar, L.M. Robison, and R.S. Galin Trends in the rate of depressive illness and use of antidepressant pharmacotherapy by ethnicity/race: an assessment of office-based visits in the United States, 1992-1997 Clin. Ther. 22 2000 1575 1589
13. W.J. Strawbridge, M.I. Wallhagen, S.J. Shema, and G.A. Kaplan Negative consequences of hearing impairment in old age: a longitudinal analysis Gerontologist 40 2000 320 326
14. B.E. Weinstein, Geriatric hearing loss: myths, realities, resources for physicians. Geriatrics. 44 (1989) 42-8, 58, 60.