Accessibility of Medicare Diabetes Prevention Programs and Variation by State, Race, and Ethnicity

Alice Yan; Zhuo Chen; MinQi Wang; Carlos E Mendez; Leonard E Egede

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28797

Accessibility of Medicare Diabetes Prevention Programs and Variation by State, Race, and Ethnicity

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Oct 1;4(10):e2128797. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28797.

Authors

Alice Yan¹, Zhuo Chen^{2

3}, MinQi Wang⁴, Carlos E Mendez^{5

6}, Leonard E Egede¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Advancing Population Science, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens.
³ School of Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Zhejiang, China.
⁴ Department of Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park.
⁵ Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
⁶ Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the accessibility of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program and investigates whether there are disparities in access among racial and ethnic minority beneficiaries at the state level.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Cross-Sectional Studies
Diabetes Mellitus / ethnology
Diabetes Mellitus / physiopathology
Diabetes Mellitus / prevention & control*
Humans
Medicare / organization & administration
Medicare / statistics & numerical data*
Preventive Medicine / education
Preventive Medicine / statistics & numerical data
Racial Groups / ethnology
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data*
State Health Plans / standards*
State Health Plans / statistics & numerical data
United States / ethnology