Groeneveld Peter W
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
LDI Issue Brief. 2004;10(3):1-4.
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.
医疗保健中的种族差异已有充分记录，尽管其中许多差异的原因仍不明确。一个有趣的可能性是，地理因素——某些群体居住或获得医疗保健的地方——导致了种族差异，尤其是在使用新医疗技术方面。本简报探讨了在使用挽救生命的心脏手术和心脏骤停后的死亡率方面的种族差异，并考虑了医疗保健中的地理差异如何影响这些差异。
