In the Nation's Interest: Equity in Access to Health Care
Author: Lillie-Blanton, Marsha
Date Published: 1995
Hispanics and African Americans are two population subgroups that historically have faced barriers in obtaining access to timely and appropriate care. This report provides an update on the nation's progress in reducing those barriers. Access to care is defined broadly here, to include both the potential to obtain services--insurance coverage and regular source of care--and the realized access to service--physician visits and health care expenditures. This project was undertaken to provide policymakers, practitioners, and advocates with an objective account of the progress achieved in reducing barriers to care and the nature of the problems that persist. To achieve the above aims, this project convened two public policy forums and analyzed national survey data from the 1987 National Medical Attention Survey (NMES). This summary report describes key findings from the work of research teams commissioned by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health project staff. The commissioned papers, along with a summary of key issues identified at the policy forums, will be published in a monograph produced by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
Date Published: 1995
Hispanics and African Americans are two population subgroups that historically have faced barriers in obtaining access to timely and appropriate care. This report provides an update on the nation's progress in reducing those barriers. Access to care is defined broadly here, to include both the potential to obtain services--insurance coverage and regular source of care--and the realized access to service--physician visits and health care expenditures. This project was undertaken to provide policymakers, practitioners, and advocates with an objective account of the progress achieved in reducing barriers to care and the nature of the problems that persist. To achieve the above aims, this project convened two public policy forums and analyzed national survey data from the 1987 National Medical Attention Survey (NMES). This summary report describes key findings from the work of research teams commissioned by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health project staff. The commissioned papers, along with a summary of key issues identified at the policy forums, will be published in a monograph produced by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
