African American perspectives on health care: the voice of the community.
African Americans often have interactions with health care systems, services, and providers that are quite different from those of other population groups. Residents in a predominantly African American community in the southeastern United States identified issues that had a significant influence on their health care interactions. Their insights about health insurance concerns, perceived quality of health care, and trust in the health care system provide a useful framework for the redesign of care that will better meet their health care needs.
Miller
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Diabetes Research and Training Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Seib
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Dennie
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D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D017144:Focus Groups; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015144:Southeastern United States; D013714:Tennessee