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J Health Polit Policy Law (2025) 50 (2): 253–281.
Published: 01 April 2025
...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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 177–209.
Published: 01 April 2020
... are not significantly related to sponsorship of punishment-oriented bills. Conclusions: These results suggest that the racial inequalities and double standards of drug policy still persist but in different forms. References Adler E. Scott , Cayton Adam F. , and Griffin John D. 2018...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 241–276.
Published: 01 April 2020
... that emphasize racial disadvantage activate loser perceptions and the political consequences of such beliefs. Methods: White survey participants (N = 1,549) were randomized into three groups: a control which saw no news article, or one of two treatment groups which saw a news article about the opioid crisis...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (5): 901–924.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Rashawn Ray; Abigail A. Sewell; Keon L. Gilbert; Jennifer D. Roberts Abstract Blacks and Latinos are less likely than whites to access health insurance and utilize health care. One way to overcome some of these racial barriers to health equity may be through advances in technology that allow people...
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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): 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 (2003) 28 (6): 1033–1088.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Jacqueline Stevens Conventional wisdom holds that race is socially constructed and not based on genetic differences. Cutting-edge genetic research threatens this view and hence also endangers the pursuit of racial equality and useful public health research. The most recent incarnation of racial...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (4): 811–838.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Jason Schnittker; Ke Liang Although some scholars suggest that racial/ethnic concordance between physicians and patients will do much to eliminate disparities in medical care, the evidence for concordance effects is mixed. Using nationally representative data with an oversample of blacks...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (1): 75–105.
Published: 01 February 1998
...David Barton Smith Large racial inequities in health care use continue to be reported, raising concerns about discrimination. Historically, the health system, with its professionally dominated, autonomous, voluntary organizational structure, has presented special challenges to civil rights efforts...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (2): 225–258.
Published: 01 April 2022
... weight and preterm birth to Black and white mothers, and whether variations in state generosity attenuate the racial inequalities in birth outcomes. The authors also examine whether the relationship between state policies and racial inequalities in birth outcomes is moderated by the education level...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (5): 889–924.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of health inequity may differ across racial and other demographic groups. Previous research identifies several factors that influence whether inequity is perceived as a problem and support for government's role in addressing inequity. First, whites often have less diverse networks, providing fewer...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 April 1991
...David Rosner Robert N. Proctor. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. 496 pp. $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Reference Maier , Charles S. 1988 . The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (5): 761–783.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Sara Rosenbaum; Morgan Handley; Rebecca Morris; Maria Casoni Abstract Context: The racial health equity implications of the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We focus on four key health care policy decisions made by the administration in response to the public...
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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 (2011) 36 (6): 945–960.
Published: 01 December 2011
... find that health care policy preferences, already tinged with racial attitudes in 2008, became increasingly so by 2010. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References ABC News/Washington Post . 2008 . Poll , January 30 – February 1 . iPOLL Databank, Roper Center for Public Opinion...
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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 (2016) 41 (4): 827–846.
Published: 01 August 2016
... essential for American democracy, but American institutions were not designed to handle its current form—ideologically pure, racially sorted, closely matched parties playing by “Gingrich rules” before a partisan media. The new partisanship injects three far-reaching changes into national health policy...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (2): 413–417.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Peter Kent-Stoll Hatch Anthony Ryan . Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2016 . 184 pp. $87.50 cloth, $25.00 paper. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The concept of metabolic...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (3): 539–572.
Published: 01 June 2017
... is positively related to state adoption; (3) whether this support is racialized; (4) whether, if racialized, there is evidence of more state responsiveness to white support than to nonwhite (black and/or Latino) support; and (5) does the size of the nonwhite population matter more when white support...
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