Children with special health care needs: How immigrant status is related to health care access, health care utilization, and health status

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 567-579

  Javier, Joyce R ^a   Huffman, Lynne C ^b   Mendoza, Fernando S ^b   Wise, Paul H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Chronic illness; Disparities; Immigrant; Special health care needs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77956262991     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-009-0487-9     Document Type: Article

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