Open AccessMedical Debt and Related Financial Consequences Among Older African American and White Adults
Author(s) -
Jacqueline Wiltshire,
Keith Elder,
Catarina I. Kiefe,
Jeroan J. Allison
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2016.303137
Subject(s) - debt , demography , odds , odds ratio , health and retirement study , public health , population , medicine , marital status , confidence interval , gerontology , environmental health , demographic economics , logistic regression , economics , finance , sociology , nursing , pathology
To evaluate African American-White differences in medical debt among older adults and the extent to which economic and health factors explained these.