Health Care Quality and Diabetes

Paper Summary:

This report looks at the issue of disparities in health care quality with regard to individuals who have diabetes. It is well established in scientific literature that different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in the United States face persistent barriers to health care access and quality. This is particularly true with regard to minority groups in which diabetes is present at a higher proportion than other groups. This report looks at this and associated issues, reasons behind the issues, what the existing literature says about the problem, and what future solutions to the problem may be.

From the Paper:

"Statistical presentations in the current literature tend to agree with the main assumption of this report, that is, that there are disparities in the current healthcare environment regarding quality of care to patients with diabetes that often fall along lines of race and socioeconomic class, and that this represents a significant problem to the current healthcare establishment. Although there are a few reports such as the one quoted directly above which attempt to downplay disparities between different groups and quality of care, most sources agree that this is a serious issue to be addressed. Existing literature on the subject tends to be divided between policy-oriented literature that attempts to chart a current or future course to change the system, and literature that is
more systemic and quantitative and attempts to put the problem into a statistical perspective."

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