Beware of unawareness
Subtitle: racial/ethnic disparities in awareness of chronic diseases
By: Pinka Chatterji, Heesoo Joo, Kajal Lahiri
Contributors: Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16578; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16578.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  This paper studies racial/ethnic disparities in awareness of chronic diseases using biomarker data from the 2006 HRS.  We estimate a 3-step sequential probit model which accounts for selection into: (1) participating in biomarker collection; (2) having illness (hypertension or diabetes); (3) being aware of illness.  Contrary to studies reporting that African-Americans are more aware of having hypertension than non-Latino whites, we do not find this conclusion holds after self-selection and severity are considered.  Likewise, African-Americans and Latinos are less aware of having diabetes compared to non-Latino whites.  Disparities in unawareness are exacerbated when we limit the sample to untreated respondents"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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