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Is there equity in the home health care market?
— understanding racial patterns in the use of formal home health care | | Author(s) | Shelley I White-Means, Rose M Rubin |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 4, July 2004 |
| Pages | pp S220-S229 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | White people ; Black people ; Home nursing ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Usage [services] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors use data from the 1994 US National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS) to quantify whether the observed racial gap in formal home health care (HHC) use is explained by racial differences in predisposing, enabling, need and environmental characteristics. They find numerous unique racial patterns in HHC use. Older black people with diabetes and low income have higher possibilities of HHC use than their White counterparts. Black older people have 25% higher chance of using HHC than older white people. Overall, the authors find that the HHC market is equitable, enhancing availability, acceptability and accessibility of care for older black people. Thus, the racial differences they find are not racial disparities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041130228 A |
| Classmark | TKA: TKE: N4: N3: QLD: 48: 7T |
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