Disparities in Health Care — From Politics to Policy

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dc.contributor.authorSteinbrook, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T14:59:44Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T14:59:44Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractOn December 22, 2003, as many Americans began their Christmas holidays, the DHHS released two comprehensive reports about health care, the National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report.Four years earlier, Congress had passed a law requiring the AHRQ, which is part of the DHHS, to report annually on both the overall quality of health care and disparities in health care among racial and other groups. It is standard procedure for government reports to go through a clearance process before their public release. The review may involve substantial back and forth among many officials, and it usually escapes public scrutiny. Moreover, federal reports, particularly those that are released during holiday periods, often attract little attention. Within weeks, however, it became widely known that although the December report on disparities in health care contained essentially the same tables of data as the report that AHRQ officials had submitted for approval six months earlier, it otherwise differed markedly from the July version. Democratic staff members in the House of Representatives who work for Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Government Reform, called attention to these differences by making public an internal AHRQ draft of the executive summary from June 2003. They issued a report on the changes as “a case study in politics and science.”
dc.description.urihttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp048060
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/2rkq-bwoq
dc.identifier.citationSteinbrook, Robert (2004) Disparities in Health Care — From Politics to Policy. New England Journal of Medicine, 350 (15). pp. 1486-1488.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 572
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22635
dc.subjectAccess To Healthcare
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectPolicy
dc.subjectservice
dc.subjectstatus
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectminority
dc.subjectdisparities
dc.subjecthealth care
dc.subjectpolicy
dc.subjectpolitics
dc.subjectsocioeconomic
dc.subjectappropriateness of care
dc.subjectaccess to care
dc.subjecthealth insurance
dc.subjectlanguage
dc.subjectcultural barriers
dc.subjectlevel of education
dc.subjectliving environment
dc.subjectmedical care
dc.subjectpreferences
dc.titleDisparities in Health Care — From Politics to Policy
dc.typeArticle

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