Examining racial and ethnic disparities in site of usual source of care.

摘要: Little is known about why minorities have a lower propensity to use private doctors' offices for their usual source of care than non-Hispanic whites. This study used the 2001 Commonwealth Fund's Health Care Quality Survey adults determine if this disparity due racial and ethnic differences in attitudes health healthcare, perceptions discrimination healthcare. We found that race disparities at site persisted even after controlling individuals' impact did vary by subgroups. These factors were important Asians' but had little on African Americans' care. However, despite differential ethnicity, not observed Therefore, addition focusing provider-patient relationships, perhaps future research policymakers should focus system-level explain increase minority physicians' offices.