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...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...

...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...

... 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...

[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...

...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...

.... Federal power 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...

...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...

...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...

...Michelle Ko [email protected] Anne Pollock . Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2021 . 216 pp. $21.95 paper. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The murder of George...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... to denote a policy problem (Bardach 1996 ) that has been identified as such at least partly because it is seen as inequitable. In the United States, by contrast, discussions of group differences in health more frequently use the term disparity , which in many instances does not include a fairness judgment...

... to developing health literacy, improving health outcomes, and contributing to reducing health disparities by race and health insurance status. References Abraham Katherine G. , Helms Sara , and Presser Stanley . 2009 . “ How Social Processes Distort Measurement: The Impact of Survey...

...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...

..., 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...

...Benjamin D. Sommers; Rebecca Brooks Smith; Jose F. Figueroa Abstract Context: Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) 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...