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ARe minority groups being shortchanged?
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Medical Economics
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March 19, 2001
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Copyright informationCopyright Medical Economics Inc. Mar 19, 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Cigarette smokers are more likely to stop if their doctors suggest it to them, according to the Center for Studying Health System Change, a research group funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It appears, however, that doctors don't dispense their counsel evenly among the races.
In 1998-1999, according to the Community Tracking Study Household Survey conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change, 38 percent of white smokers and 34 percent of African-American smokers received such counsel-while only 25 percent of Hispanics did.
The pattern holds with mammography. In ...
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