Cornelius LJ, Altman BM.
Have we succeeded in reducing barriers to medical care for African and Hispanic Americans with disabilities?
Soc Work Health Care 1995;22(2):1-17.

The paper assessed the degree of disability for African, Hispanic, and Native Americans and the extent to which it is correlated with the use of services using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES). The findings revealed that African and Hispanic Americans with disabilities encountered disproportionately more barriers to care. These groups were more likely than whites to lack insurance, a regular provider and are less likely to see a doctor during the year.

“A focus interview was conducted of 20 African American and Hispanic American adults living in an urban metropolitan area… The topic of these focus interviews was the identification of the types of problems African and Hispanic adults reported in attempting to obtain needed health services… Some were reluctant to obtain medical care because they perceived they would become victims of discrimination. In particular, African Americans expressed a concern that they would be treated as subjects of experiments, like African Americans who were in the Tuskegee experiment.”