Predicting Health Care Utilization Among Latinos: Health Locus of Control Beliefs or Access Factors?

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 423-430

  De Jesus, Maria ^a   Xiao, Chenyang ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

health behavior; health care access; health care services; health care use; health disparities; health locus of beliefs; immigration health; Latino; race ethnicity; social determinants

Indexed keywords

CONTROL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907178465     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198114529130     Document Type: Article

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