Generational status, health insurance, and public benefit participation among low-income latino children

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 735-743

  DeCamp, Lisa Ross ^a   Bundy, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Health insurance; Immigrant; Infants and Children (WIC); Latinos; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INSURANCE; MALE; MIGRATION; PATIENT; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; POVERTY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84860878914     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-011-0779-8     Document Type: Article

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