Titre :
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Socioeconomic status and dissatisfaction with health care among chronically ill African Americans. (2003)
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Auteurs :
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Gay BECKER ;
Edwina NEWSOM ;
Institute for Health and Aging. University of California. San Francisco. USA
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of public health (vol. 93, n° 5, 2003)
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Pagination :
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742-748
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Système santé
;
Programme santé
;
Malade
;
Etude comparée
;
Facteur socioéconomique
;
Adulte
;
Homme
;
Etats Unis
;
Amérique
;
Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xVBET4. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Addressing differences in social class is critical to an examination of racial disparities in health care. Low socioeconomic status is an important determinant of access to health care. Results from a qualitative, in-depth interview study of 60 African Americans who had one or more chronic illnesses found that low-income respondents expressed much greater dissatisfaction with health care than did middle-income respondents. Low socioeconomic status has potentially deadly consequences for several reasons : its associations with other determinants of health status, its relationship to health insurance or the absence thereof, and the constraints on care at sites serving people who have low incomes.
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