Provider effects on racial/ethnic disparities in the Florida Medicaid population

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Abstract

Reducing health disparities is a key goal set by Healthy People 2010. Barriers to service provision include travel distance to a provider, racial and ethnic dissimilarities between service providers and recipients, and living in rural as opposed to urban environments. Each of these barriers to care should independently influence consumer satisfaction with Medicaid services, and combined, should paint a more detailed picture than previously possible. This study was designed to evaluate the relative contributions of these three barriers to care on satisfaction with Medicaid health and mental health services.

Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 2007

Keywords

  • health disparities
  • provider effects

Disciplines

  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

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