Macroeconomic antecedents of racial disparities in psychiatric-related emergency department visits.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether monthly declines in aggregate employment precede a rise in African American psychiatric-related ED visits (PREDVs) relative to white visits among low-income, working-age populations.

Design

This study used repeated cross-sectional time series data for 6.7 million PREDVs among African Americans and white individuals from the State Emergency Department Database in 48 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) across four states (Arizona, California, New York, New Jersey) from 2006 to 2011. MSA-level monthly employment data were obtained from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The outcome was specified as the race of a PREDV (African American = 1, white = 0). The exposure was operationalized as monthly percent change in MSA-level aggregate employment lagged

SUBMITTER: Singh P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11200170 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature