TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Understanding health-care access and utilization disparities among Latino children in the United States
JO  - Journal of child health care
A1  - Langellier, Brent A.
A1  - Chen, Jie
A1  - Vargas-Bustamante, Arturo
A1  - Inkelas, Moira
A1  - Ortega, Alexander N.
SP  - 133
EP  - 144
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
N2  - It is important to understand the source of health-care disparities between Latinos and other children in the United States. We examine parent-reported health-care access and utilization among Latino, White, and Black children (≤17 years old) in the United States in the 2006-2011 National Health Interview Survey. Using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, we portion health-care disparities into two parts (1) those attributable to differences in the levels of sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., income) and (2) those attributable to differences in group-specific regression coefficients that measure the health-care 'return' Latino, White, and Black children receive on these characteristics. In the United States, Latino children are less likely than Whites to have a usual source of care, receive at least one preventive care visit, and visit a doctor, and are more likely to have delayed care. The return on sociodemographic characteristics explains 20-30% of the disparity between Latino and White children in the usual source of care, delayed care, and doctor visits and 40-50% of the disparity between Latinos and Blacks in emergency department use and preventive care. Much of the health-care disadvantage experienced by Latino children would persist if Latinos had the sociodemographic characteristics as Whites and Blacks.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1367-4935
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367493514555587
ID  - ref1
ER  -