HCP Live April 26, 2024
Areas with socioeconomic disadvantage often face concentrated poverty, poor walkability, and few healthcare facilities, creating challenges in eye care follow-up.
A new analysis identified a significant lapse in diabetic retinopathy care over 2 years, with the most disadvantaged neighborhoods demonstrating an interaction with race and ethnicity.
Non-Hispanic White patients from areas of socioeconomic disadvantage were more likely to have lapses in diabetic retinopathy care, compared with those from less disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patients from nearly all examined neighborhoods exhibited a greater risk of experiencing lapses in care, compared with non-Hispanic White patients from the least socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.
“For racial and ethnic minority groups, the impacts of structural racism and its downstream effects on the maldistribution...
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