Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Services and Outcomes, 2020

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

T he Agency for Health Care Research and Quality will soon release its annual report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. In the three years since that report first appeared, there has been some slow improvement in some areas for some ethnic groups. But there is still troubling evidence that racial and ethnic disparities still pervade health care in the U.S. despite many efforts to ...

Unequal treatment: racial and ethnic disparities in alcoholism treatment services.

Racial and ethnic disparities in alcoholism treatment may exist with respect to treatment need as well as access to, appropriateness, and quality of care. For any given level of alcohol consumption, ethnic minority populations experience more negative consequences of drinking than Whites and therefore have greater treatment needs. Whether access to treatment is more compromised for minority cli...

Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in pituitary surgery outcomes.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To investigate the association of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and hospital volume with outcomes in pituitary surgery. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study of the 2008-2012 National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample. METHODS Patient demographics, hospital characteristics, postoperative complications, and in-hospital mortality for patients undergoing p...

Examining racial and ethnic disparities in health and hypertension control.

Anational strategy for improving the health of the American people has been defi ned for each decade since 1980.1 When Healthy People 20102 was released in 2000, there were 2 overarching goals. The fi rst goal dealt with our need to focus more attention on improving quality of life, not just years of life lived. The second goal was the elimination of disparities in health among different racial...

Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Youth Mental Health Services Do Disparities Vary by Problem Type?