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Health and community-based service use
— differences between elderly African Americans and whites | | Author(s) | Jim Mitchell, Holly F Mathews, Linner W Griffin |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 19, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 199-222 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Needs [elderly] ; Usage [services] ; White people ; Black people ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This article examines the effects of predisposing, enabling, and need indicators on differences in use of health and community-based services by African American and white older people. Responses are based on personal interviews with a random sample of 2,178 adults aged 60 and over living at home in eastern North Carolina. Health services include primary care visits and visits to specialists. Community-based services were categorised into personal care services and financial assistance. Logistic regression analyses were done, to explain why African American elders were more likely to than whites to use specialty care, and whether there are differences by race in the use of primary care physicians. Results indicate that the odds of using financial assistance and medical care vary by race according to selected predisposing, enabling, and needs characteristics. There is little difference by race, however, in the use of financial assistance services. Implications of the findings are discussed. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971113213 A |
| Classmark | L: I: IK: QLD: TKA: TKE: 48: 7T |
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