Measuring and Analyzing Health Care Disparities
Health Services Research - Volume 47, Issue 3pt2, June 2012
Edited by: Jacqueline S. Zinn and José J. Escarce
Published on behalf of Health Research and Educational Trust in cooperation with AcademyHealth
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This special issue of Health Services Research is devoted to highlighting challenges in the measurement of disparities in health care and exploring innovative approaches to address these challenges. The articles in this issue arose from a conference on “Methodological and Conceptual Issues in the Measurement of Healthcare Disparities” convened at
This conference was jointly organized by the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research of the Cambridge Health Alliance through a
The articles in this special issue have three primary themes:
(1) measurement challenges when examining and evaluating mechanisms of health care disparities from diverse disciplinary perspectives;
(2) recent innovations in disparities measurement and analytic methods; and
(3) recommendations to health services researchers for measuring and tracking health care disparities in diverse contexts
Content:
Taking the Measure of Health Care Disparities
Margarita Alegria, Romana Hasnain-Wynia and John Z. Ayanian
Measuring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Methods and Practical Issues
Benjamin Lê Cook, Thomas G. McGuire and Alan M. Zaslavsky
Integrating Multiple Social Statuses in Health Disparities Research: The Case of Lung Cancer
David R. Williams, Emily Z. Kontos, K. Viswanath, Jennifer S. Haas, Christopher S. Lathan, Laura E. MacConaill, Jarvis Chen and John Z. Ayanian
Elucidating the Role of Place in Health Care Disparities: The Example of Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation
Kellee White, Jennifer S. Haas and David R. Williams
The Validity of Race and Ethnicity in Enrollment Data for Medicare Beneficiaries
Alan M. Zaslavsky, John Z. Ayanian and
The Impact of Insurance Coverage in Diminishing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Behavioral Health Services
Margarita Alegria, Julia Lin, Chih-Nan Chen, Naihua Duan, Benjamin Cook and Xiao-Li Meng
Lessons from the Use of Vignettes in the Study of Mental Health Service Disparities
Sheri Lapatin, Marta Gonçalves, Anna Nillni, Ligia Chavez, Roxana Llerena Quinn, Alexander Green and Margarita Alegría
A Systematic Review of Community-Based Participatory Research
to Enhance Clinical Trials in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
Denise De Las Nueces, Karen Hacker, Ann DiGirolamo and LeRoi S. Hicks
Looking to the Future:
Incorporating Genomic Information into Disparities Research to Reduce Measurement Error and Selection Bias
Alexandra E. Shields and William H. Crown
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