States higher in racial bias spend less on disabled medicaid enrollees

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue , 2018, Pages 150-157

  Leitner, Jordan B ^a   Hehman, Eric ^b   Snowden, Lonnie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disability; Health policy; Intergroup relations; Medicaid; Racial bias

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; DISABILITY; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH POLICY; RACIAL DISPARITY;

ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; MEDICAID; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; AFRICAN AMERICAN; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; POLITICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA];

AFRICAN AMERICANS; DISABLED PERSONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INCOME; MEDICAID; POLITICS; RACISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85048703634     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.013     Document Type: Article

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