Medical expenditures represent a major financial burden that can hinder families' ability to
acquire other goods and services. How patterns of out-of-pocket medical expenditures vary …

Objective. To assess whether black–white and Hispanic–white disparities increase or abate
in the upper quantiles of total health care expenditure, conditional on covariates. Data …

The primary hypothesis of this study is that racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care
impose costs on numerous aspects of society, both direct health care costs and indirect …

This commentary2 will focus on health inequalities in relation to race/ethnicity and, in doing
so, it will connect with both the health inequalities chapter (Case and Kraftman, 2022) and …

Disparities in health between Americans have been documented since the early 20th
century. WEB Dubois first observed racial and ethnic inequalities in health in 1906. The first …

Persistent racial and ethnic health disparities exist in the USA, despite decades of research
and public health initiatives. Several factors contribute to health disparities, including (but …

The papers featured in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review were presented at
“Eliminating Racial, Ethnic, and SES Disparities in Health Care: A Research Agenda for the …

Objectives Although the proportion of people reporting problems paying medical bills has
declined in the aftermath of the Great Recession, it is unclear if this decline has been caused …

Significant race-related disparities persist in the US regarding access to health services.
Initiatives to reduce such disparities have often focused on expanding health insurance …

Abstract During the Jim Crow era of 1877 to 1954, the federal government sponsored and
supported the racially separate and unequal distribution of resources, including, but not …