Minority and Nonminority Pediatricians' Care of Minority and Poor Children

Minority and nonminority pediatricians' care of minority and poor children.

BACKGROUND Although it has been established that minority physicians tend to see more minority and more poor or uninsured patients, pediatrics as a specialty has not been studied in this regard. OBJECTIVE To determine if minority pediatricians disproportionately provide care to minority children and to poor and uninsured children, relative to nonminority pediatricians, while controlling for p...

Comparison of secondhand smoke exposure in minority and nonminority children with asthma.

OBJECTIVE This study determined if secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is related to asthma-related functional morbidity by examining racial/ethnic differences in non-Latino White (NLW), African American, and Latino families and whether racial/ethnic SHS exposure differences across families persist when accounting for smoking factors. METHODS Participants were 305 caregiver smokers of children wi...

Positive Development of Minority Children

A lthough the development and well-being of ethnic and racial minority children have received sustained attention over the past few decades from policymakers, researchers, and practitioners (Cabrera, Beeghly, & Eisenberg, 2012; Crosnoe & Fuligni, 2012; McLloyd, 1990, 2006; Quintana et al., 2006), these efforts have contributed to a body of knowledge that, while rigorous and insightful, has ofte...

Palliative Care, Cancer and Minority Ethnic Communities

Asthma care quality for children with minority-serving providers.

OBJECTIVE To compare asthma care quality for children with and without minority-serving providers. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone survey of parents, linked with a mailed survey of their children's providers. SETTING A Medicaid-predominant health plan and multispecialty provider group in Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS A total of 563 children with persistent asthma, identified by claims and ...