Racial, ethnic, and language concordance between patients and their usual health care providers
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Gonzalez, Dulce, author Kenney, Genevieve M., author McDaniel, Marla, author O'Brien, Claire, (Of Urban Institute), author
- Contributor(s):
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, issuing body. Urban Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Urban Institute, March 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Communication Barriers Ethnic and Racial Minorities -- statistics & numerical data Health Equity -- economics Health Policy Professional-Patient Relations Racial Groups -- statistics & numerical data Social Mobility Socioeconomic Factors United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Historical medical mistreatment of Black Americans and other people of color, including the provision or withholding of treatment on the basis of erroneous beliefs about biological differences by race and ignoring such patients’ health concerns, has contributed to a mistrust of health care providers within these groups. Perceptions of a shared identity between patients and their health care providers could be one way to improve the patient-provider relationship and foster trust and better communication. Although the available evidence is not conclusive, having a health care provider of the same race or who speaks the same language has been associated with a greater likelihood of patients agreeing to and receiving preventive care, better patient experience ratings, and higher ratings on patient-reported measures of care quality. Drawing on the April 2021 round of the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), we provide a current snapshot of racial, ethnic, and language concordance between nonelderly patients ages 18 to 64 and their usual providers.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (16 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918486681906676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918486681906676