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Health Disparities: Access and Utilization

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This chapter focuses on disparities in access and utilization of health services by older adults of racial and ethnic backgrounds. It highlights the data challenges associated with frequent exclusion of this population from clinical research and consequent irrelevance or unavailability of evidence-based information to support clinical practice guidelines recommendations, and how this affects clinical practice and systems of care. Systematic approaches to identify, analyze, and address disparities; change providers and systems; and educate health care professionals are discussed.

The views expressed in this chapter are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Aging, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or the U.S. Federal Government.

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  1. Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, suite 3C307, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.

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    Lenise Cummings-Vaughn

  2. Division of Geriatrics Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Dulce M. Cruz-Oliver

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Correa-de-Araujo, R. (2017). Health Disparities: Access and Utilization. In: Cummings-Vaughn, L., Cruz-Oliver, D. (eds) Ethnogeriatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16558-5_7

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