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Mistrust May Cause People to Put Off Treatment
Date:9/3/2009

isparities in levels of mistrust for the health-care system, said Chanita Hughes Halbert, of the Penn Center for Population Health and Health Disparities at the University of Pennsylvania.

"However, as noted by the investigators, they were not able to examine the effects of mistrust on health-care utilization within each racial group," Halbert said in the news release. "Ultimately we need to deal with this trust issue by training providers as well as others who encounter patients. This is a health system problem, and we need to find ways to make patients more trusting of health-care institutions in general. The next step is determining what ways we can engender more trust among patients."

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The Kaiser Family Foundation has more on minorities and the health-care system.



-- Jennifer Thomas



SOURCE: Health Service Research, news release, Sept. 1, 2009


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