• Military medicine · Mar 2002

    Racial variations in Department of Veterans Affairs ambulatory care use and unmet health care needs.

    • Donna L Washington, Nancy D Harada, Valentine M Villa, JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, Shawkat Dhanani, Herb Shon, and Takashi Makinodan.
    • Department of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. donna.washington@med.va.gov
    • Mil Med. 2002 Mar 1; 167 (3): 235-41.

    AbstractOur objective was to describe racial/ethnic variations in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ambulatory care use and its association with the presence of unmet health care needs. Using the 1992 National Survey of Veterans, we examined race/ethnicity and unmet health care need for ambulatory care users of VA and non-VA facilities. Black and Hispanic veterans were more likely to report any VA use. In unadjusted analyses, American Indian/Eskimo, Hispanic, and black veterans were 4.4, 2.5, and 1.9 times more likely, respectively, than white veterans to report an inability to get needed care. Adjusting for VA ambulatory care use diminished the disparity in inability to get needed care between American Indian/Eskimo or Hispanic veterans and white veterans and eliminated the disparity between black and white veterans. Our findings support the VA's role as a medical safety net provider and suggest that VA ambulatory care use is effective in mitigating health-related racial disparities for some veterans. Additional facilitators for reducing unmet need should be explored.

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