| Creation of New Race-Ethnicity Codes and Socioeconomic Status (SES) Indicators for Medicare Beneficiaries: Final Report Contributor(s): Centers for Medicare &. Medicaid Service (Author), Penny Hill Press (Editor), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quali (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544273452 ISBN-13: 9781544273457 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Health Care Issues |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 8.5" W x 11" (0.45 lbs) 78 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This project sub-task is a continuation of an earlier task order project (Contract Number 500-00-0024, Task 8) Health Disparities: Measuring Health Care Use and Access for Racial/Ethnic Populations (2005) intended to identify race/ethnic disparities in the use of selected Medicare covered services. This sub-task has two objectives. The first is to create and validate an acceptable measure of socioeconomic status (SES) that could be incorporated into further analyses of health care disparities among the racial/ethnic groups participating in the Medicare program. The second objective is to prepare tabulations (using an improved race/ethnicity measure created in the earlier project) that incorporate the SES variable (as well as age and gender) in such a way, that differences in utilization associated with race/ethnicity are highlighted while the effects of the aforementioned covariates are controlled or held constant. |