Journal article
State-Level Immigrant Prenatal Health Care Policy and Inequities in Health Insurance Among Children in Mixed-Status Families
Global pediatric health, v 6, p2333794
2019
PMID: 31598542
Abstract
Children in immigrant families are twice as likely to be uninsured as their
counterparts, and states may influence these inequities by facilitating or
restricting immigrant families’ access to coverage. Our objective was to measure
differences in insurance by mother’s documentation status among a nationally
representative sample of US-born children in immigrant families and to examine
the role of state-level immigrant health care policy—namely, state-level
immigrant access to prenatal coverage. Compared with US-born children in
immigrant families with citizen mothers, children with undocumented immigrant
mothers had a 17.0 percentage point (
P
< .001) higher
uninsurance rate (8.8 percentage points higher in adjusted models,
P
< .05). However, in states with nonrestrictive
prenatal coverage for immigrants, there were no differences in children’s
insurance by mother’s documentation status, while large inequities were observed
within states with restrictive policies. Our findings demonstrate the potential
for state-level immigrant health care policy to mitigate or exacerbate
inequities in children’s insurance.
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Details
- Title
- State-Level Immigrant Prenatal Health Care Policy and Inequities in Health Insurance Among Children in Mixed-Status Families
- Creators
- Jessie Kemmick Pintor - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USAKathleen Thiede Call - University of Minnesota
- Publication Details
- Global pediatric health, v 6, p2333794
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Grant note
- R36HS021973 / ;
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85077779241
- Other Identifier
- 991021895802204721