@article{ref1,
title="Understanding health-care access and utilization disparities among Latino children in the United States",
journal="Journal of child health care",
year="2014",
author="Langellier, Brent A. and Chen, Jie and Vargas-Bustamante, Arturo and Inkelas, Moira and Ortega, Alexander N.",
volume="20",
number="2",
pages="133-144",
abstract="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>",
language="en",
issn="1367-4935",
doi="10.1177/1367493514555587",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367493514555587"
}