Medicaid Managed Care and Minority Populations
Author : David R. Nerenz
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
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Author : David R. Nerenz
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
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Author : Sara Rosenbaum
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309165865
As the population of older Americans grows, it is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Differences in health by racial and ethnic status could be increasingly consequential for health policy and programs. Such differences are not simply a matter of education or ability to pay for health care. For instance, Asian Americans and Hispanics appear to be in better health, on a number of indicators, than White Americans, despite, on average, lower socioeconomic status. The reasons are complex, including possible roles for such factors as selective migration, risk behaviors, exposure to various stressors, patient attitudes, and geographic variation in health care. This volume, produced by a multidisciplinary panel, considers such possible explanations for racial and ethnic health differentials within an integrated framework. It provides a concise summary of available research and lays out a research agenda to address the many uncertainties in current knowledge. It recommends, for instance, looking at health differentials across the life course and deciphering the links between factors presumably producing differentials and biopsychosocial mechanisms that lead to impaired health.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
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Author : Darrell J. Gaskin
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Health services accessibility
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Author : Regina Emanuel Martin
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309452961
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
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ISBN : 1428978534
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Handicapped
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