The Impact of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program’s Unborn Child Ruling Expansions on Foreign-Born Latina Prenatal Care and Birth Outcomes, 2000–2007

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1464-1471

  Drewry, Jonathan ^a   Sen, Bisakha ^b   Wingate, Martha ^b   Bronstein, Janet ^b   Foster, E Michael ^b   Kotelchuck, Milton ^c  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Differences in differences; Foreign born Latina; Immigrant health; Prenatal care; Unborn child ruling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD HEALTH INSURANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INSURANCE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIGRANT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84931563606     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-014-1650-5     Document Type: Article

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