Measuring racial/ethnic disparities across the distribution of health care expenditures

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5 PART 1, 2009, Pages 1603-1621

  Cook, Benjamin Lê ^a   Manning, Willard G ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care expenditures; Quantile regression; Racial disparities; Vigicile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69749101056     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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