Racial Disparities in Access to Care for Men in a Public Assistance Program for Prostate Cancer
California's IMPACT program provides all its enrollees with health insurance and social service resources. The authors hypothesized that racial/ethnic disparities in access to care might be attenuated among men served by this program. Their objective was to evaluate racial/ethnic differences in health services utilization and patient-reported health care outcomes among disadvantaged men in a prostate cancer public-assistance program, and to identify modifiable factors that might explain persistent disparities in this health care setting.
