Objective To review methods of measuring racial/ethnic health care disparities. Study
Design Identification and tracking of racial/ethnic disparities in health care will be advanced …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Supplement to “Propensity score weighting for causal inference with multiple treatments”.
Supplement A: On Transitivity. We provide a detailed discussion on transitivity of the target …

Background Reimbursement systems provide incentives to health care providers and may
drive physician behaviour. This review assesses the impact of reimbursement system on …

Delivering Health Care in America, Sixth Edition is the most current and comprehensive
overview of the basic structures and operations of the US health system—from its historical …

Governments contract with private firms to provide a wide range of services. While a large
body of previous work has estimated the effects of that contracting, surprisingly little has …

Context: Twenty‐five years ago, private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare
program with the stated dual aims of (1) giving beneficiaries a choice of health insurance …

Introduction. The ability to track improvement against racial/ethnic disparities in mental
health care is hindered by the varying methods and disparity definitions used in previous …

Racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care access in the United States are well
documented. Prior studies highlight the importance of individual and community factors such …

There is little question that the issue of “health disparities” has been given a central place
across medicine and contemporary society of late (eg, Institute of Medicine 2002). From …