HEALTH EQUITY & SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH (SDOH)

- Healthcare Disparities
- Criminal Justice
- SDOH
- Diabetes Care
Healthcare Disparities
DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE
Health care disparities exist in access to or availability between population groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, race, economic resources, or gender and populations identified geographically across the United States. CHSE evaluates the impact of Oregon’s efforts to reduce health disparities through Medicaid reform.
Selected Works
- Study finds people of color disproportionately dropped from Medicaid, JAMA Internal Medicine, 2024
- Increased use of complementary and alternative therapies for back pain following statewide Medicaid coverage changes in Oregon, 2021
- Health Care Expenditures Among Adults With Diabetes After Oregon’s Medicaid Expansion, 2020
- Access to Primary, Mental Health, and Specialty Care: A Comparison of Medicaid and Commercial Insured Populations in Oregon, 2020
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Medicaid: Lessons from Oregon, 2019
- Issue Brief: Oregon Medicaid efforts to reduce health disparities