Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1999-2018.

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) César Caraballo, Yale School of Medicine; Shiwani Mahajan, Yale School of Medicine; Javier Valero-Elizondo, Houston Methodist; Jeph Herrin, Yale School of Medicine; Harlan Krumholz, Yale School of Medicine

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Project Citation:

Caraballo, César, Mahajan, Shiwani, Valero-Elizondo, Javier, Herrin, Jeph, and Krumholz, Harlan. Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1999-2018. . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-09-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E149221V1

Project Description

Summary:

We include here the code files used to obtain the results reported in the study below:

Mahajan S, Caraballo C, Lu Y, et al. Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1999-2018. JAMA. 2021;326(7):637–648. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.9907

In the study above, we used data from the National Health Interview Survey from years 1999 to 2018 to investigate the trends in racial and ethnic disparities in health status, severe psychological distress, functional limitation, lack of health insurance coverage, lack of a usual source of care, no recent health care utilization, and unmet medical needs due to cost.

Funding Sources: None

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: health status; health care access; health care; insurance coverage; racial disparities; ethnicity; health disparities

Geographic Coverage: United States of America

Time Period(s): 1999 – 2018

Universe: Adult noninstitutionalized population of the United States.

Data Type(s): survey data

Collection Notes:

All the data used in this study are publicly available. We obtained the data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series website (https://nhis.ipums.org/nhis/).

Reference: Lynn A. Blewett, Julia A. Rivera Drew, Miriam L. King and Kari C.W. Williams. IPUMS Health Surveys: National Health Interview Survey, Version 6.4 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2019. https://doi.org/10.18128/D070.V6.4

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