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Access to and Use of Asthma Health Services Among Latino Children: The Rhode Island-Puerto Rico Asthma Center Study
Medical care research and review, v 68(6), pp 683-698
01 Dec 2011
PMCID: PMC3266228
PMID: 21536604
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Abstract
This study determines asthma-related health care access and utilization patterns for Latino children of Puerto Rican and Dominican origin residing in Rhode Island (RI) and Latino children residing in Puerto Rico (Island). Data included 804 families of children with persistent asthma recruited from clinics. Island children were less likely to receive regular asthma care and care from a consistent provider and more likely to have been to the emergency department and hospitalized for asthma than RI children. Island children were 2.33 times more likely to have used the emergency department for asthma compared with RI non-Latino White (NLW) children. Latino children residing in both Island and RI were less likely to have used specialty care and more likely to have had a physician visit for asthma in the past year than RI NLW children. The differences might reflect the effects of the different delivery systems on pediatric health care utilization and asthma management.
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- Title
- Access to and Use of Asthma Health Services Among Latino Children: The Rhode Island-Puerto Rico Asthma Center Study
- Creators
- Barbara Jandasek - Brown UniversityAlexander N. Ortega - University of California, Los AngelesElizabeth L. McQuaid - Brown UniversityDaphne Koinis-Mitchell - Brown UniversityGregory K. Fritz - Brown UniversitySheryl J. Kopel - Brown UniversityRonald Seifer - Brown UniversityRobert B. Klein - Brown UniversityGlorisa Canino - University of Puerto Rico System
- Publication Details
- Medical care research and review, v 68(6), pp 683-698
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 16
- Grant note
- U01-HL072438 / National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) U01HL072438 / NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) R01AA016166 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000297225500004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-81755161292
- Other Identifier
- 991019296836204721
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