It is widely recognized that African Americans have a higher level of mistrust towards the medical and health care sector, which results in insufficient utilization of public health services, low participation in clinical research, and vaccination hesitancy. While the Tuskegee Syphilis Study has...

Repetitive values of the ranking indicators of economic welfare are often introduced due to incidental ties or censoring in the welfare variable, or the categorical nature of welfare variables used in numerous national surveys. In calculating concentration index (CI), assigning different...

Objective Recent studies indicate continuing health disparities across geographic units in the US. This paper provides updated estimates of the association between socioeconomic factors and population health using a new state-level dataset and panel econometric methods that account for...