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ArticleIsrael journal of health policy research2017

Double disparities in the health care for people with schizophrenia of an ethnic-national minority.

Gilad Gal, Hanan Munitz, Itzhak Levav

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Article in Israel journal of health policy research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gilad GalSchool of Behavioral Sciences, Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, Rabenu Yeruham St, Tel Aviv, Israel. giladgal@mta.ac.il.
Hanan MunitzClalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Itzhak LevavDepartment of Community Mental Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo · ILClalit Health Services · ILUniversity of Haifa · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundStudies have shown health care disparities among persons of minority status, including in countries with universal health care. Yet, a dearth of studies have addressed disparities resulting from the combined effect of two minority status groups: severe mental illness and ethnic-national sector filiation. This study aimed to compare the differential health care of Jewish- and Arab-Israelis with schizophrenia in a country with a universal health insurance.

methodThis study builds on a large case-control epidemiological sample (N = 50,499) of Jewish- (92.9%) and Arab-Israelis (7.1%) service users with (n = 16,833) and without schizophrenia (n = 33,666). Health services records were collected in the years 2000-2009. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) served as sentinel diseases. We compared annual number of LDL tests and visits to specialists in the entire sample, Hemoglobin-A1C test among people diagnosed with diabetes, and cardiac surgical interventions for those diagnosed with CVD.

resultsService users with schizophrenia were less likely to meet identical indexes of care as their study counterparts: 95% of cholesterol tests (p < .001), and 92% visits to specialists (p < .001). These differences were greater among Arab- compared to Jewish-Israelis. Annual frequency of Hemoglobin-A1C test among people diagnosed with diabetes was lower (94%) in people with schizophrenia (p < 0.01), but no ethnic-national differences were identified. Among service users with CVD less surgical interventions were done in people with schizophrenia (70%) compared to their counterparts, with no ethnic-national disparities.

conclusionsIn Israel, service users with schizophrenia fail to receive equitable levels of medical and cardiac surgical care for CVD and regular laboratory tests for diabetes. Although disparities in some health indicators were enhanced among Arab-Israelis, schizophrenia was a greater source of disparities than ethnic-national filiation.

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Health Status DisparitiesAgedArabsEthnicityFemaleHealth Services AccessibilityHumansIsraelJewsMaleMiddle AgedMinority GroupsProspective StudiesRisk FactorsSchizophrenia

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