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Titre :	Socioeconomic status and dissatisfaction with health care among chronically ill African Americans. (2003)
Auteurs :	Gay BECKER ; Edwina NEWSOM ; Institute for Health and Aging. University of California. San Francisco. USA
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 93, n° 5, 2003)
Pagination :	742-748
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Système santé ; Programme santé ; Malade ; Etude comparée ; Facteur socioéconomique ; Adulte ; Homme ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord
Résumé :	[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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