Immigrant Status and Its Impact on Access to Health Care
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Authors
Navarro, Ignacio
Ibarra, Juan
Anglemyer, Andrew
Subjects
Undocumented Immigrants
Health Services Accessibility
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Insurance Coverage
Health Disparities
Health Services Accessibility
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Insurance Coverage
Health Disparities
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Date of Issue
2017
Date
2017
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Scientific Research Publishing
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Abstract
This paper explores disparities in health care access for undocumented immigrants in the United States. Using the case of California, we find that less than half of undocumented immigrants in this state report having health insurance. Additionally, our estimates show that, among the insured, US-born and naturalized citizens are significantly more likely to have a doctor visit in the pre- vious year when compared to undocumented immigrants (aOR = 1.53%; 95% CI 1.15 - 2.04, aOR = 1.40%; 95% CI 1.05 - 1.87, respectively). Further, we find that US-born citizens are significantly more likely to use the ER in the previous year than undocumented immigrants, independent of insurance status. Our findings suggest that undocumented immigrants not only face barriers to obtain health insurance, but even with health insurance they face barriers to access health care services.
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Article
Description
The article of record as published may be found at http://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2017.512007
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Operations Research (OR)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
13 p.
Citation
Navarro, Ignacio, Juan Ibarra, and Andrew Anglemyer. "Immigrant Status and Its Impact on Access to Health Care." Open Journal of Social Sciences 5.12 (2017): 85.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.