Journal article
Racial Differences in Illness Behavior
Journal of community health, Vol.8(2), pp.87-101
01/01/1982
DOI: 10.1007/BF01326553
PMID: 6762383
Abstract
Using data on 359 white & 126 black Rs who were interviewed in their home as part of an omnibus health care study in a Ru southern county during 1978, the illness behavior (ie, dentist, MD, & hospital utilization measures) of blacks & whites are compared & contrasted. Zero-order racial differences in illness behavior disappeared after controlling for the predisposing, enabling, & need characteristics identified in R. Andersen's generic access model (A Behavioural Model of Families' Use of Health Services, Chicago: Center for Health Administration Studies, 1968). Further multivariate analysis, however, indicates that while there are no racial differences in illness behavior after the predisposing, enabling, & need characteristics of the individual are taken into consideration, there are significant differences between blacks & whites in the effects of these characteristics, at least in terms of discretionary health services utilization. This provides some support for recent speculation that blacks might respond differently than whites regarding the use of & access to health services because of separate cultural traditions. 4 Tables. HA.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Racial Differences in Illness Behavior
- Creators
- Fredric Wolinsky
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of community health, Vol.8(2), pp.87-101
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF01326553
- PMID
- 6762383
- ISSN
- 0094-5145
- eISSN
- 1573-3610
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/1982
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Record Identifier
- 9984363660602771
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