Abstract
Health care in the United States is of crucial concern to citizens and government officials as well as academicians. This study reviews the literature concerning stratification and inequality. The delivery of medical services is investigated as a component of social inequality as well as one component of models of change in inequality. The data used in this analysis were collected in four upstate New York counties. Interviews were done to obtain information concerning household use of various medical specialties. Socioeconomic data were also collected for the households in the sample. The inequality of medical service delivery was investigated by comparing the distribution of medical service utilization at different levels of socioeconomic status. The degree of inequality of medical service utilization is considered a function of how strongly related utilization is to various measures of socioeconomic status. Multiple regression revealed that education of head of house, family income, level of living, fam...
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