Health care disparities and language use at home among latino, asian american, and american indian adolescents: Findings from the california health interview survey
✍ Scribed by Hyeouk Chris Hahm; Maureen Lahiff; Rose M. Barreto; Sunny Shin; Wan-Yi Chen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Using the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, this study compared health status, medical insurance, and having a usual source of care for 2,230 ethnic minority adolescents based on language use at home: Group 1, English only; Group 2, both English and another language; and Group 3, exclusively another language. Adjusting for demographic variables, adolescents in Group 3 were more likely to report fair or poor health (OR=2.37, p=.012) and to not have medical insurance (OR=4.61, p<.001) compared to adolescents in Group 1. Young adolescents in Group 3 were more likely to have no usual source of care (OR=4.07, p=.029). Interventions need to consider language barriers in the context of an adolescent's age. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.