Mortality amenable to healthcare in Louisiana: results from a cross-sectional study

Maysoun Dimachkie Masri, Claudia Campbell, Reid Oetjen, Larry S. Webber and Yara M. Asi

International Journal of Public Policy, 2014, vol. 10, issue 4/5, 209-230

Abstract: Evaluating disparities in healthcare outcomes is not an easy task for policy makers. This requires access to outcome indicators at the patient level. Patient level data are not easily available because of privacy considerations and costs of collection. One approach to assess health disparities is to examine variations in mortality from conditions known to be amenable to medical care. Mortality amenable to healthcare (MAHC) is defined as deaths before the age of 75 from selected causes that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective medical care (Nolte ad McKee, 2004). This study describes the differences in age-adjusted standardised mortality rates (ASMRs) from all cause MAHC and ASMRs for diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease separately, by parish, in Louisiana; and estimates the Spearman correlation between ASMR from all cause MAHC and socio-economic factors.

Keywords: Louisiana; mortality amenable to healthcare; MAHC; health systems outcomes; quality indicators; healthcare disparities; healthcare outcomes; mortality variations; age-adjusted standardised mortality rates; ASMRs; UISA; United States; diabetes mellitus; ischemic heart disease; socio-economic factors. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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