Access to and use of asthma health services among Latino children: The Rhode Island-Puerto Rico asthma center study

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 683-698

  Jandasek, Barbara ^a   Ortega, Alexander N ^b   McQuaid, Elizabeth L ^a   Koinis Mitchell, Daphne ^a   Fritz, Gregory K ^a   Kopel, Sheryl J ^a   Seifer, Ronald ^a   Klein, Robert B ^a   Canino, Glorisa ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

asthma; children; health care utilization; health service accessibility; Hispanic Americans; Latino; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH VISITOR; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD PERSISTENT ASTHMA; MODERATE PERSISTENT ASTHMA; PHYSICIAN; PUERTO RICO; SCHOOL CHILD; SEVERE PERSISTENT ASTHMA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUERTO RICO; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RHODE ISLAND;

EID: 81755161292     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: 15526801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558711404434     Document Type: Article

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