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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (2): 131–158.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Merlin Chowkwanyun Abstract What exactly is a “racial health disparity”? This article explores five lenses that have been used to answer that question. It contends that racial health disparities have been presented—by researchers both within academia and outside of it—as problems of five varieties...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (4): 635–647.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Lynn A. Blewett Duke University Press 2009 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 2000. Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Fact Sheet. AHRQ Publication No. 00-PO41. February. Rockville, MD: AHRQ. www.ahrq.gov/research/disparit.htm (accessed February 15...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (5): 803–839.
Published: 01 October 2017
... to the issue of racial disparities in health (Docteur and Berenson 2014 ), which became a core theme of the agency's health strategy as outlined five years later in Healthy People 2000 (HHS 1990 ). The strategy received a significant update in 2000 with the publication of Healthy People 2010 (HHS 2000...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 February 2006
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Different and Differenced
Takes on Disparities
Variously described in terms of disparities, inequities, differences, or
inequalities, concerns about distributional equity emerged around the
world as a primary theme in health-policy making during the last decade...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Deborah Stone Although racial and ethnic disparities in health have been on the federal government's agenda since 1985, no policy reforms have significantly reduced disparities. The question arises whether states can effectively address this issue without waiting for solutions from the national...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 153–184.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Kala Ladenheim; Rachel Groman How have state legislatures acted to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care? This article examines trends over time in state legislation related to disparities in care and access, proposed legislation during one biennial session, and contemporary...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 185–218.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Brian K. Gibbs; Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson; Matthew D. McHugh; Amal N. Trivedi; Deborah Prothrow-Stith Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health status and health care, a major focus of Healthy People 2010 , remains on the national agenda and among the priorities for the administration...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (2): 225–258.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and authority matter more in terms of the social determinants of health in the United States and in addressing racial health disparities because macroeconomic policies, health care access, social policies of various kinds, workers' rights, the making and enforcement of antidiscrimination law, and tax policies...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (5): 555–581.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Gilbert Gonzales; Nathaniel M. Tran; Marcus A. Bennett Abstract Context: The authors examined the association between state-level policy protections and self-rated health disparities between transgender and cisgender adults. Methods: They used data on transgender (n = 4,982) and cisgender (n...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Derek DeLia; Joel C. Cantor; Amy Tiedemann; Cecilia S. Huang This article evaluates a Certificate of Need (CON) reform in New Jersey that was designed to expand hospital capacity to provide cardiac angiography (CA) and reduce long-standing disparities in access to the procedure. Using data from...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (5): 861–881.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., they are the only providers for which current reporting requirements make it possible to fully assess racial disparities in use and quality of care. We find that African Americans' use of nursing homes in 2000 in the United States was 14 percent higher than Caucasians' use. The largest relative African American use...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 627–651.
Published: 01 August 2016
...David R. Williams; Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Abstract Large racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status (SES) differences in health persist in the United States. Eliminating these health disparities is a public health challenge of our time. This article addresses what is needed for social and behavioral...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (2): 377–385.
Published: 01 April 2017
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jing Liu; David A. Hyman Abstract Context: In health care, licensing is pervasive. Restrictions on applicants with criminal records may have a disparate impact on historically marginalized groups. There is bipartisan interest in evaluating whether occupational licensing requirements are too strict...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (2): 187–214.
Published: 01 April 2023
[email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 segregation COVID-19 racial disparities rates deaths Patterns of racial segregation in America embody what Paul Starr has called strategic entrenchment. According to Starr, entrenchment is the process...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (5): 821–824.
Published: 01 October 2023
... for undergraduate students new to scholarship on anti-Black racism and health, and to be an introduction for scholars that encourages work across multiple disciplines. The book's strengths and improvements on generic health “disparities” literature perhaps inadvertently highlight the book's weaknesses: a lack...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 599–626.
Published: 01 August 2016
... a return toward ideas of Rudolf Virchow and mid-nineteenth-century social medicine that social determinants and disparities are major drivers of population health. Since individual health and population health constitute the major determinants of health care utilization and expenditures, social...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (5): 901–924.
Published: 01 October 2017
... to developing health literacy, improving health outcomes, and contributing to reducing health disparities by race and health insurance status. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 health disparities race minority health mobile phone technology health policy Blacks and Latinos are more...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (3): 403–427.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... The consequences of COVID-19 for health equity have been a central concern in public health, and the concept of health equity has also been beset by partisan polarization. In this article, the authors present and discuss nationally representative survey data from 2023 on US public perceptions of disparities...
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J Health Polit Policy Law 11567660.
Published: 27 September 2024
...Benjamin D. Sommers; Rebecca Brooks Smith; Jose F. Figueroa Abstract Context: The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion produced major gains in coverage. However, findings on racial and ethnic disparities are mixed and may depend on how disparities are measured. This study examines both...
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