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SUBMITTER: Hua CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6110974 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hua Cassandra L CL Bardo Anthony R AR Brown J Scott JS
Journal of the National Medical Association 20180223 6
<h4>Purpose</h4>Compared to whites, blacks under-utilize primary care (PC) and over-utilize emergency department (ED) services. The aim of this study is to determine whether mistrust in physicians explains these black-white disparities, and the potentially modifying influence of socialization under racially segregated health care (i.e., raised in the U.S. South during the Jim Crow era).<h4>Methods</h4>Data come from the nationally representative Americans' Changing Lives Study (n=1,578). Poisson ...[more]