Physician Performance and Racial Disparities in Diabetes Mellitus Care
Background Little information is available regarding variations in diabetes mellitus (DM) outcomes by race at the level of individual physicians….
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Diabetes Health Disparities: A Systematic Review of Health Care Interventions
Racial and ethnic minorities bear a disproportionate burden of the diabetes epidemic; they have higher prevalence rates, worse diabetes control,…
Health Disparity: Causes, Consequences, and Change
Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through Finding Answers:Disparities Research for Change, the authorship team for this supplement provides…
Health Disparity: Causes, Consequences, and Change
Reducing Health Disparities in Depressive Disorders Outcomes between Non-Hispanic Whites and Ethnic Minorities: A Call for Pragmatic Strategies over the Life Course
There are significant disparities in treatment process and symptomatic and functional outcomes in depressive disorders for racial and ethnic minority…
Cardiovascular Health Disparities: A Systematic Review of Health Care Interventions
Racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health care are well documented. Promising approaches to disparity reduction are increasingly described in…
Cultural Leverage: Interventions Using Culture to Narrow Racial Disparities in Health Care
The authors reviewed interventions using cultural leverage to narrow racial disparities in health care. Thirty-eight interventions of three types were…
Pay for Performance, Public Reporting, and Racial Disparities in Health Care: How Are Programs Being Designed?
Pay-for-performance and public reporting programs may have a neutral, narrowing, or widening effect on racial disparities in health care. The…