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Socioeconomic disparities are also quite common: millions of low income Americans lack insurance and receive poorer health care quality overall (IOM, 2002a)
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Subnational datasets. Guiding the National Healthcare Disparities Report While socioeconomic status is not the only factor related to racial and ethnic health care disparities, it is a highly important one because racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to have lower socioeconomic status.
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Research is also needed to evaluate how well measures of socioeconomic status are associated with access, use, and quality of health care services. In addition to income and education, these measures include but are not limited to total wealth, occupation, and deprivation indices, that is, composite measures formulated from such vanables as employment status and access to a car.
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4. The National lIealthcare Disparities Report should include measures of high utilization of certain health care services that indicate poor health care quality.
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6. In the future, if A~Q continues to rely on suhnational data sources for the National Healthcare Disparities Report, it should work with public and private organizations that sponsor key suhnational data sources to identify core elements in surveys that can be standardized.
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. Conclusion The National Healthcare Disparities Report could play a major role in raising awareness of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic health care disparities.
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4. The National Healthcare Disparities Report should include measures of high utilization of certain health care services that indicate poor health care quality.
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2001b. Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report.
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Presentation to the First Meeting of the IOM Committee for Guidance in Designing a National Health Care Disparities Report (Jan 28~. Ricketts, T
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