Hispanic-Asian Immigrant Inequality in Perceived Medical Need and Access to Regular Physician Care

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• 作者：Stephanie Howe Hasanali ; Gordon F. De Jong…
• 关键词：Health care access and utilization ; Hispanic immigrants ; Asian immigrants ; Perceived medical need ; Health care inequality
• 刊名：Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 页码：219-227
• 全文大小：372 KB
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• 作者单位：Stephanie Howe Hasanali (1) (2)
  Gordon F. De Jong (1) (2)
  Deborah Roempke Graefe (2)
  
  1. Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 211 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
  2. Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
  
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Sociology, general; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1557-1920

文摘

In the face of continuing large immigrant streams, Hispanic and Asian immigrants’ human and social capital inequalities will heighten U.S. race/ethnic health and health care disparities. Using data from the 2004 and 2008 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this study assessed Hispanic-Asian immigrant disparity in access to health care, measured by perceived medical need and regular access to a physician. Logistic regression results indicated that Hispanics had lower perceived met medical need and were less likely to see a doctor regularly. These disparities were significantly attenuated by education and health insurance. Assimilation-related characteristics were significantly associated with a regular doctor visit and were not fully mediated by socioeconomic variables. Findings indicate the importance of education above and beyond insurance coverage for access to health care and suggest the potential for public health efforts to improve preventive care among immigrants. Keywords Health care access and utilization Hispanic immigrants Asian immigrants Perceived medical need Health care inequality