在获得医疗补助办公室的种族,民族和农村差异
Kenneth Lim1, Demetri Goutos1, Monica Aswani2
1Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, United States.
Health affairs scholar
|May 7, 2025
概括
实体医疗补助办公室对于受益人来说至关重要,但获得的机会有很大的不同. 拥有大量西班牙裔或农村人口的县有较低的医疗补助办公室的可能性,突出现有差异.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
- 公共卫生政策 公共卫生政策
背景情况:
- 实体医疗补助办公室对于受益人支持和在入学和重新确定期间的行政任务至关重要.
- 现有的关于医疗补助办公室接入的种族,种族和农村差异的研究是有限的.
- 了解地理接入对于确保公平的医疗保健支持至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了检查美国各县的医疗补助办公室密度的变化.
- 调查到实体医疗补助办公室的种族,民族和农村差异.
- 确定与县级医疗补助办公室存在相关的人口因素.
主要方法:
- 利用了地理编码的医疗补助办公室的县级数据集.
- 将这些数据与美国社区调查的人口统计信息合并.
- 用于空间变化和统计分析的线性概率模型的choropleth映射.
主要成果:
- 超过75%的美国县至少有一个医疗补助办公室.
- 在西班牙裔 (≥40%) 人口较多的县,拥有办公室的概率降低了14.3% (P < 0.001).
- 农村人口高 (>50%) 的县,办公室的可能性较低18.7% (P < 0.001).
结论:
- 在物理Medicaid办公室的访问存在显著的差异,基于种族,种族和农村地区.
- 调查结果表明,长期存在的州级投资差异影响了获取.
- 结果可以为基础设施,外展和技术的有针对性的投资提供信息,以改善公平获取.
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