Key Personnel:
William D. Kearns, Ph.D.
Yang Ji, MA
Provider Effects on Racial/Ethnic Disparity in the Florida Medicaid Population
Publication Date: 6/1/2007
Description:
Reducing health disparities is a key goal set by Healthy People 2010 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). Barriers to service provision include travel distance to a provider, racial and ethnic dissimilarities between service providers and recipients, and living in rural as opposed to urban environments. Each of these barriers to care should independently influence consumer satisfaction with Medicaid services, and combined, should paint a more detailed picture than previously possible. This study was designed to evaluate the relative contributions of these three barriers to care on satisfaction with Medicaid health and mental health services.
