Does access to care still affect health care utilization by immigrants? Testing of an empirical explanatory model of health care utilization by Korean American immigrants with high blood pressure

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 513-519

  Song, Hee Jung ^a   Han, Hae Ra ^b   Lee, Jong Eun ^b   Kim, Ji Yun ^b   Kim, Kim B ^c   Ryu, Jai Poong ^d   Kim, Miyong ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Korean Resource Center   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anderson model; Ethnic minority immigrant; Health care utilization; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH KOREA; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; BALTIMORE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 77955983872     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-009-9276-1     Document Type: Article

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