If One Wishes to Assess the Relation Between Race and Access

question 121

Multiple Choice

If one wishes to assess the relation between race and access to healthcare, it may be important to take into account the overlapping variability that race and access to healthcare share with household income.If a correlation between race and access to healthcare is found after controlling for household income, it indicates that:

• A) access to healthcare is not associated with race or household income.
• B) race, access to healthcare, and household income are perfectly correlated with one another.
• C) there are racial inequities in access to healthcare that cannot be accounted for by differences in household income.
• D) any differences in access to healthcare are attributable to differences in household income.