Vulnerability and unmet health care needs

✍ Scribed by Leiyu Shi; Gregory D. Stevens

• Book ID: 109092005
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0884-8734
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.40136.x

✦ Synopsis

CONTEXT: Previous studies have demonstrated a strong association between minority race, low socioeconomic status (SES), and lack of potential access to care (e.g., no insurance coverage and no regular source of care) and poor receipt of health care services. Most studies have examined the independent effects of these risk factors for poor access, but more practical models are needed to account for the clustering of multiple risks.

OBJECTIVE:

To present a profile of risk factors for poor access based on income, insurance coverage, and having a regular source of care, and examine the association of the profiles with unmet health care needs due to cost. Relationships are examined by race/ethnicity.