Diverging racial and ethnic disparities in access to physician care: Comparing 2000 and 2007

Medical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 327-334

  Mahmoudi, Elham ^a   Jensen, Gail A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

access to physician services; doctor visits; public health policy; racial ethnic disparities; usual source of care

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858698370     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318245a111     Document Type: Article

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