Title

Mortality Amenable To Healthcare In Louisiana: Results From A Cross-Sectional Study

Keywords

Health systems outcomes; Healthcare disparities; Louisiana; MAHC; Mortality amenable to healthcare; Quality indicators

Abstract

Evaluating disparities in healthcare outcomes is not an easy task for policy makers. This requires access to outcome indicators at the patient level. Patient level data are not easily available because of privacy considerations and costs of collection. One approach to assess health disparities is to examine variations in mortality from conditions known to be amenable to medical care. Mortality amenable to healthcare (MAHC) is defined as deaths before the age of 75 from selected causes that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective medical care (Nolte ad McKee, 2004). This study describes the differences in age-adjusted standardised mortality rates (ASMRs) from all cause MAHC and ASMRs for diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease separately, by parish, in Louisiana; and estimates the Spearman correlation between ASMR from all cause MAHC and socio-economic factors. Copyright © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

International Journal of Public Policy

Volume

10

Issue

4-5

Number of Pages

209-230

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPP.2014.063078

Socpus ID

84903935020 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84903935020

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