Community variation: Disparities in health care quality between asian and white medicare beneficiaries

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 538-549

  Moy, Ernest ^a   Greenberg, Linda G ^b   Borsky, Amanda E ^b  

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

^b CNA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; ASIAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 41749086188     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.538     Document Type: Article

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