Healthcare Disparities
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Socioeconomic status and utilization of health care services in Canada and the United States: findings from a binational health survey.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: Building on Andersen's behavioral model for the utilization of health care services, we examined factors associated with utilization of physician and hospital services among adults in Canada and the United States, with a focus on ... Read more...

Mental health disparities.

30 Oct 2009 Mental health disparities have received increased attention in the literature in recent years. After considering 165 different health disparity conditions, the Federal Collaborative for Health Disparities Research chose mental health disparity as ... Read more...

An evaluation of HIV testing among inmates in the North Carolina prison system.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: We examined the use of voluntary HIV testing among state prisoners in the North Carolina prison system. METHODS: We calculated system-wide and facility-specific proportions and rates of adult inmates tested for HIV and estimated ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Healthcare Disparities'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Socioeconomic status and utilization of health care services in Canada and the United States: findings from a binational health survey. 30 Oct 2009
• Mental health disparities. 30 Oct 2009
• The state of health in South Africa: quo vadis? 29 Oct 2009
• The interdisciplinary approach to culturally tailored medical care: "Social networking" for decreasing risk: Comment on "The effects of a nurse case manager and a community health worker team on diabetic control, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial" and "Trial of family and friend support for weight loss in African American adults". 24 Oct 2009
• New horizons for mental health in the UK. 8 Oct 2009
• Realising the human right to health. Oct 2009
• An evaluation of HIV testing among inmates in the North Carolina prison system. 29 Sep 2009
• Protection of racial/ethnic minority populations during an influenza pandemic. 29 Sep 2009
• Disparities in BRCA testing: when insurance coverage is not a barrier. 29 Sep 2009
• The identification and treatment of isolated tumor cells reflect disparities in the delivery of breast cancer care. 29 Sep 2009
• An analysis of the association between parental acculturation and children's medication use. 26 Sep 2009
• Disparities in access to pediatric neurooncological surgery in the United States. 26 Sep 2009
• Does vascular surgery cost too much? 24 Sep 2009
• [Is a woman's life less valuable than a man's?] 22 Sep 2009
• Professional behaviors of physicians and pursuing social justice. 21 Sep 2009
• Changes not for the fainthearted: reorienting health care systems toward health equity through action on the social determinants of health. 15 Sep 2009
• Collaborating to end health disparities in our lifetime. 15 Sep 2009
• Antiepileptic drugs in children in developing countries: research and treatment guideline needs. 8 Sep 2009
• The tragedy of the commons revisited. 8 Sep 2009
• Matched-pair analysis of race or ethnicity in outcomes of head and neck cancer patients receiving similar multidisciplinary care. 6 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Healthcare Disparities'

Definition: Differences in access to or availability of facilities and services

Descriptor UI: D054625

Alternative terms: Healthcare Disparities; Disparity, Healthcare; Healthcare Disparity; Health Care Disparities; Disparities, Health Care; Disparity, Health Care; Health Care Disparity; Disparities, Healthcare;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.374.380; N05.300.493;

History Note: 2008