Explaining disparities in treatment seeking: the case of infertility.
OBJECTIVE
To present an integrated model of help-seeking, review empirical work in its support, and show its application to the explanation of racial and ethnic disparities in infertility help-seeking.


METHODS
Review.


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CONCLUSIONS
A help-seeking model provides a plausible explanation of observed disparities in infertility help-seeking. In addition to being related to income, race and ethnicity is related to prior experience with doctors, marital status, parity, knowledge and attitudes toward reproductive technology, and attitudes supporting spiritual rather than technological solutions to health problems.
White
Lynn
L
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0324, USA. lwhite3@unlnotes.unl.edu
McQuillan
Julia
J
Greil
Arthur L
AL
D005006:Ethnicity / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*