Comparing methods of racial and ethnic disparities measurement across different settings of mental health care

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 825-847

  Lê Cook, Benjamin ^a   McGuire, Thomas G ^a   Lock, Kari ^b   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access demand utilization of services; Determinants of health population health socioeconomic causes of health; Mental health; Racial ethnic differences in health and health care

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NEGRO; PREDICTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951921908     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01100.x     Document Type: Article

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