Racial disparities in cardiac care: geography matters.
Racial disparities in health care have been well-documented, although the reasons for many of these disparities remain obscure. An intriguing possibility is that geographic factors--the places where certain groups live or obtain health care--contribute to racial disparities, especially in the use of new medical technologies. This Issue Brief examines racial disparities in the use of life-saving cardiac procedures and mortality after cardiac arrest, and considers how geographic differences in health care affect these disparities.
Groeneveld
Peter W
PW
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D017741:Survivors / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001741:Black or African American