Understanding health-care access and utilization disparities among Latino children in the United States

Journal of Child Health Care

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 133-144

  Langellier, Brent A ^a   Chen, Jie ^b   Vargas Bustamante, Arturo ^c   Inkelas, Moira ^c   Ortega, Alexander N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; child health; health care; health disparities; Latinos; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DECOMPOSITION; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84967144031     PISSN: 13674935     EISSN: 17412889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367493514555587     Document Type: Article

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