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- A Systematic Approach for Statistical Analysis of HMDA Pricing Data
- This paper presents a systematic approach for statistical analysis of HMDA pricing data. It shows that a comprehensive ANOVA testing methodology is useful for determining when more detailed regression analysis is needed, and how an effective and powerful method to detect statistically significant pricing disparities amongst various groups is possible....
- White papers 2005-08-24
- Overcoming Disparities in U.S. Health Care
- Disparities in U.S. health care result from a complex mixture of systemic quality and access problems intertwined with historic injury. The many dimensions of health disparities include race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography. It is critically important for policymakers to define the problem correctly so that our solutions address their...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Compiling the Evidence: The National Healthcare Disparities Reports
- Disparities in health care have been described extensively in the literature. The next step in resolving this national problem is to develop the necessary infrastructure for monitoring and tracking disparities. The congressionally mandated National Healthcare Disparities Report begins to build this infrastructure. The 2003 report addressed many of the methodological...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- The Role of Health Insurance Coverage in Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
- Research showing racial/ethnic disparities in medical care obtained by people with comparable insurance has raised questions about the extent to which health insurance improves opportunities for care. To assess whether insurance expansions could be expected to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in access to care, this paper reviews evidence from studies specifically...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Social Sources of Racial Disparities in Health
- Racial disparities in mortality over time reflect divergent pathways to the current large racial disparities in health. The residential concentration of African Americans is high and distinctive, and the related inequities in neighborhood environments, socioeconomic circumstances, and medical care are important factors in initiating and maintaining racial disparities in health....
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Policy Challenges in Addressing Racial Disparities and Improving Population Health
- Socioeconomic status fundamentally affects most health and disease outcomes, but black Americans are doubly disadvantaged by low status, discrimination, and residential segregation. Improving health and removing disparities are essential goals, but some efforts that improve the health of blacks in important ways also increase black-white disparity ratios. People with more...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Use of Geocoding in Managed Care Settings to Identify Quality Disparities
- Tracking quality-of-care measures is essential for improving care, particularly for vulnerable populations. The report shows that plans can begin examining and targeting potential disparities using indirect measures of enrollee race/ethnicity and SES based on geocoding. Using such measures, the paper demonstrates disparities within both Medicare Choice and commercial plans on...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Disparities and Quality Improvement: Federal Policy Levers
- Using a quality improvement framework to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care highlights multiple opportunities for federal and state governments to exert policy leverage, particularly through their roles as purchasers and regulators. Under such a framework, federal and state governments can expand their roles in collecting race/ethnicity data;...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities and the Unfinished Civil Rights Agenda
- Civil rights - era efforts to end disparities in health care in federally financed health programs faced three successively more difficult challenges: ending Jim Crow practices, eliminating more subtle forms of segregation, and assuring nondiscriminatory treatment in integrated settings. Federal efforts peaked with the implementation of the Medicare program. Visible...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Medicare as a Catalyst for Reducing Health Disparities
- As the nation's largest purchaser and regulator of health care, Medicare is positioned to be a leader in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. Its leverage was demonstrated in 1966 - the year of Medicare's inception - when hospitals desegregated as a condition for receiving Medicare reimbursement. Since then, Medicare...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Health Center Trends, 1994-2001: What Do They Portend for the Federal Growth Initiative?
- The Federal Health Center Growth Initiative aims to increase Community Health Centers' (CHCs') capacity by 60 percent from 2002 to 2006. This study investigates how primary care delivery changed and sustained its growth during 1994-2001. Findings reveal a rise in the number of patients and maintenance of their visit rate....
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Verizon Works to Eliminate Disparities in Health Care for Its Diverse Workforce
- Eradicating disparities in health care is a process that must continue through actions from a variety of stakeholders, including employers. Verizon Communications has a diverse workforce of more than 200,000 employees and is committed to attracting and retaining a workforce that mirrors its customers, speaks their languages, and understands their...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Smoking
- National surveys reveal striking racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent smoking behavior. Whites and Hispanics are more likely than African Americans to be current or daily smokers throughout adolescence and also appear to initiate smoking earlier. Asian youths tend to exhibit lower rates of smoking than Whites and Hispanics but not African...
- White papers 2004-10-26
- Health Disparities Experienced by Hispanics: United States
- The reports describe Hispanic access to health-care and preventive services, prevalence of diabetes among Hispanics, possible disproportionate prenatal exposure to HIV among Hispanics, and the effects of revised population counts on Hispanic teen birthrates. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that disparities exist in access to...
- White papers 2004-10-15
- Policies to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Child Health and Health Care
- This paper reviews recent reports that demonstrate disparities in health care for children and current federal efforts to eliminate them. Instead of simply describing disparities, this paper also presents recommendations that can reduce disparities. By reviewing current problems, practices, and recommendations in health care coverage, quality, and provider training, the...
- White papers 2004-08-03
- Health Disparities by Race and Class: Why Both Matter
- This report examines three competing causal interpretations of racial disparities in health. The first approach views race as a biologically meaningful category and racial disparities in health as reflecting inherited susceptibility to disease. The second approach treats race as a proxy for class and views socioeconomic stratification as the real...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- NCHS Data on Racial and Ethnic Disparities
- Improving the health of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States continues to be a public health priority. Despite decades of effort, disparities persist, and changes in the racial and ethnic composition of the population have important consequences for the Nation's health. NCHS has long been a resource for...
- White papers 2004-03-31
- Employee Referral Programs: Optimizing Your Most Effective Recruiting Tool
- From the executive summary: ‘As the new economy grows, the demand for new talent continues to grow as well. However, the number of qualified individuals available to fill the responsibilities of the open positions is failing to grow at a similar rate. The disparity between the number of open positions...
- White papers 2000-06-01
Additional Resources
- Letters: One Reader's View
- The Mayor's Commission on Construction Industry Diversity recently held its first public hearing to take testimony on economic discrimination in Philadelphia. Most of the commission's work will focus on workforce utilization. Somewhat obscured in the process is the fact that employment is only one part of economic participation. Diversity in...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Over 5,000 Physicians Sign "Open Letter from America's Physicians" in Just One Month
- Doctors Leverage Sermo to catalyze national awareness about the real healthcare issues CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The U.S. physician community is making history today on Sermo (http://www.sermo.com) with the formal announcement of the Open Letter from America's Physicians. Through Sermo, physicians across every specialty and every state are uniting...
- Articles 2008-07-01
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