TY - JOUR
T1 - Disparities and the American Health Care System
AU - Amin, Sheena A.
AU - McEntee, Richard M.
AU - Wagner, Scott C.
AU - Schroeder, Gregory D.
AU - Knightly, John J.
AU - Vaccaro, Alexander R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/12/29
Y1 - 2017/12/29
N2 - The United States’ health care system is often compared with those of other industrialized countries, and consistently ranks poorly in terms of health care delivery, efficiency, and quality. However, there are several considerations unique to the United States that are often distorted in these analyses, and when considered in the context of the convoluted ethnic and social disparities that persist in the United States, the successes of the American health care system become more apparent.
AB - The United States’ health care system is often compared with those of other industrialized countries, and consistently ranks poorly in terms of health care delivery, efficiency, and quality. However, there are several considerations unique to the United States that are often distorted in these analyses, and when considered in the context of the convoluted ethnic and social disparities that persist in the United States, the successes of the American health care system become more apparent.
KW - efficiency
KW - health care delivery
KW - infant mortality rate
KW - socialized medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040352014&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/BSD.0000000000000608
DO - 10.1097/BSD.0000000000000608
M3 - Article
C2 - 29293102
AN - SCOPUS:85040352014
SN - 2380-0186
JO - Clinical Spine Surgery
JF - Clinical Spine Surgery
ER -