Racial/Ethnic Variations in Mortality in the VA Health Care System

[...]VA performance on many process of care quality measures across the full spectrum of health care services (prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and followup) is better than in non-VA health care systems.3 Veterans often report higher levels of satisfaction with VA health care than their...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2018-03, Vol.108 (3), p.299-301
Main Author: Ibrahim, Said A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Arthritis
Continental Population Groups
Diabetes
Disease
Ethnic factors
Ethnic Groups
Ethnicity
Gender identity
Health Administration
Health care
Health care access
Health care delivery
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health services
Healthcare Disparities
Humans
Legislation
Lung cancer
Medical treatment
Medicare
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority Groups
Mortality
Other Race/Ethnicity
Patients
Prevention
Private sector
Prostate
Public health
Quality
Quality of care
R&D
Race
Research & development
Satisfaction
Skin diseases
Socioeconomic Factors
Systematic review
United States
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans
Veterans Health
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Summary:[...]VA performance on many process of care quality measures across the full spectrum of health care services (prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and followup) is better than in non-VA health care systems.3 Veterans often report higher levels of satisfaction with VA health care than their counterparts receiving care in the private sector.4 The ongoing industry-wide shifts to value-based health care delivery across the nation are in part reflected by the VA implementation of the Veterans Choice Act of 2014.2 This legislation expanded access to community (i.e., non-VA) care for veterans, and resulted in enterprise-wide transformational initiatives centered on increasing patient engagement and promoting evidence-based care. [...]poor quality studies were systematically excluded. [...]the majority of the VA patient population who participated in these studies were probably male. [...]the independent effects of gender on mortality may not be entirely accounted for in the results. [...]the review focused on mortality.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304292