Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes-Related Healthcare Service Use, 2016–2021

Less than 50% of patients with diabetes from any racial or ethnic group reported fully completing annual clinical care exams. This dataset, created by Gaole Song, analyzes 2016–2021 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to examine disparities in diabetes-related healthcare service utilization. It includes assessments of annual clinical care, self-care practices among patients with diabetes, and screening rates among adults at risk.

Use Cases

• Identify disparities in annual diabetes care completion based on race/ethnicity.
• Model factors associated with diabetes screening uptake among at-risk adults.
• Analyze the relationship between healthcare access, insurance coverage, and diabetes self-care practices.

Strengths

• Data spans six years (2016–2021) from a major national surveillance system.
• Analysis includes specific odds ratios and confidence intervals for disparities, such as an OR of 0.10 for Hispanic/Latino patients completing annual exams.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small (40.8 KB), suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary statistics.

Provenance

Source

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).

Collection Method

Weighted logistic regression models and chi-square tests applied to survey data.

Time Range

2016–2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 05:43:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States (implied by BRFSS data).