Medical Inspection – Health Blog

Source Data for the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population were taken from the 1999 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). MEPS is a nationally representative survey of a sample of households drawn from previous National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) participants. Data in 1999 were collected for 23,565 [...]

INTRODUCTION Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare have been documented in numerous studies, which have been summarized in national reports, such as the Institute of Medicine’s Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care* and various Kaiser Family Foundation reports on Race, Ethnicity, and Medical Care. Some of the most rigorously documented studies [...]