Do racial and ethnic disparities in health care use vary with health?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the relationship between health status and the magnitude of black-white and Hispanic-white disparities in the likelihood of having any office-based or hospital outpatient department visits, as well as number of visits.

Data source

2010-2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Study design

The probability of having a visit is modeled using a Probit model, and the number of visits using a negative binomial model. We use a nonlinear rank-and-replace method to adjust minority health status to be comparable to that of whites, and predict utilization at different levels of health by fixing an indicator of health status. We compare estimated differences in predicted utilization across racial/ethnic groups for each level of health status to map out the re

SUBMITTER: Biener AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338306 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature