HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

May 22, 2009

links for 2009-05-22

• Organ registry in need of more African-American donors
  Minority donors make the best matches for minority kidney recipients because of the antigen matches -- or proteins -- that create a person's genetic profile. Chapman said the best match for kidneys comes from within a person's own family, then his or her ethnic community.
• Yolo health care benefits slashed, but new roof OK'd
  Yolo County supervisors voted with reluctance Tuesday to eliminate health care benefits for hundreds of undocumented workers.
• Hospital Quality And Intensity Of Spending: Is There An Association?
  For all of the quality indicators studied, the association with spending is either nil or negative. The absence of positive correlations suggests that some institutions achieve exemplary performance on quality measures in settings that feature lower intensity of care.