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Health disparity by neighbourhood income.
BACKGROUND Canadian cities are becoming more segregated by income. As such, investigation is required into the magnitude of health disparity between low-, average- and high-income neighbourhoods in order to quantify the level of health disparity at the scale of an urban city. METHODS A cross-sectional ecological study design was used to review all hospital discharges, physician visits, medica...
متن کاملWhat is a "health disparity"?
With the launch of Healthy People 2010 in January 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) committed the nation to an overarching goal, to “eliminate health disparities.”1 Like the preceding Healthy People 2000 initiative, Healthy People 2010 outlines a comprehensive disease prevention and health promotion agenda. Although this goal has met with considerable support throughout t...
متن کاملA summary measure of health disparity.
OBJECTIVES Eliminating health disparities is a goal of Healthy People 2010. In order to track progress toward this goal, we need improved methods for measuring disparity. The authors present the Index of Disparity (ID) as a summary measure of disparity. METHODS The ID, a modified coefficient of variation, was used to measure disparity across populations defined on the basis of race/ethnicity,...
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OBJECTIVES To describe patterns in physician and hospital utilization among rural and urban populations in China and to determine factors associated with any differences. METHODS In 2003, the Third National Health Services Survey in China was conducted to collect information about health services utilization from randomly selected residents. Of the 193,689 respondents to the survey (response ...
متن کاملThe health status of southern children: a neglected regional disparity.
PURPOSE Great variations exist in child health outcomes among states in the United States, with southern states consistently ranked among the lowest in the country. Investigation of the geographical distribution of children's health status and the regional factors contributing to these outcomes has been neglected. We attempted to identify the degree to which region of residence may be linked to...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Care Research and Review
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1077-5587,1552-6801
DOI: 10.1177/1077558707305412