A cross-sectional study of parental awareness of and reasons for lack of health insurance among minority children, and the impact on health, access to care, and unmet needs
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- 作者：Glenn Flores ; Hua Lin ; Candy Walker…
- 关键词：Child ; Adolescent ; Medically uninsured ; Public health ; Hispanic Americans ; African ; Americans
- 刊名：International Journal for Equity in Health
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：720 KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Development Economics; Quality of Life Research; Social Policy;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1475-9276
文摘
Background Minority children have the highest US uninsurance rates; Latino and African-American children account for 53 % of uninsured American children, despite comprising only 48 % of the total US child population. The study aim was to examine parental awareness of and the reasons for lacking health insurance in Medicaid/CHIP-eligible minority children, and the impact of the children’s uninsurance on health, access to care, unmet needs, and family financial burden.