Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preventive Service Use Among Adults Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Our objective was to assess changes in preventive services use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We obtained secondary survey data from the National Health Interview Survey for 2019 and 2021. We examined, six preventive services among all adults. Descriptive and multivariate analyses assessed changes in preventive service use among adults and by race/ethnicity for 2019 and 2021 (drawing from an unweighted sample of 60 843 weighted to be 386.2 million across both years). We used Ordinary least squares estimation to conduct a difference-in-differences analysis that assessed changes in service use for non-white racial/ethnic groups relative to changes for white non-Hispanic adults between 2019 and 2021. We found preventive services use declined overall for each screening service assess

SUBMITTER: Dubay L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418443 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature