Racial differences in awareness of the Affordable Care Act and application assistance among low-income adults in three Southern states

Inquiry (United States)

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mosqueira, Adrian Garcia ^a   Hua, Lynn M ^b   Sommers, Benjamin D ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Care Act; Disparities; Hispanic health; Medicaid; Navigators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAID; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL WORKER;

EID: 84982685751     PISSN: 00469580     EISSN: 19457243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0046958015609607     Document Type: Article

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