Insurance + access ≠ health care: Typology of barriers to health care access for low-income families

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 511-518

  DeVoe, Jennifer E ^a,c   Baez, Alia ^a   Angier, Heather ^a   Krois, Lisa ^b   Edlund, Christine ^b   Carney, Patricia A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oregon Health Policy and Research   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Child health; Insurance coverage; Medicaid; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADULT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFANT; INSURANCE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 37049030203     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.748     Document Type: Article

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