As the heat of the Presidential Debate on last Tuesday and the up coming election, I think Hershey hit the right target to start off with the candidates’ health plans. I totally agree with Amy about evaluating the issue and taking stance on this issue. I already decided who will be my president anyway! However, for those who are still debating on this; especially about the health plans, please keep these facts in mind:
Only 30 of 50 states have a dedicated office of minority health.
Nearly one-third of the states report mortality data using a "white-other," "black-white," or "black-white-other" racial breakdown.
States with the highest proportion of minorities had physician workforces that were the least reflective of their demographic composition.
There are no consistent association between the four performance measures and either state fiscal capacity or percentage of minorities in the state.
Overall that is the reason we are taking this course. These are from an old (2005) paper that I found from the Policy Journal of Health Sphere.
You can read it here: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/24/2/388
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