Utilization barriers among Mexican Americans in the Southwest
1988
Estrada, Antonio L.
Utilization of health care services by Mexican Americans continues to be the topic of much research interest, as well as providing a basis for debate among researchers, policy makers, and health care providers on how to best meet the heatlh needs of this ethnic group. Data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in 1982-1984 shed some light on which barriers are clearly important to the utilization of health services, and which barriers are not as important.
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]The purpose of the present study is three-fold: to document the type of barriers encountered which prevent Mexican Americans from obtaining health care; to examine which sociodemographic subgroups are being prevented from obtaining health care within the Mexican American sample; and to examine the joint effects of predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics on utilization barriers. The findings suggest that there is a differential relationship between specific predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics and utilization barriers.
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]Generally, low income groups, younger age groups, the less acculturated, those who lackhealth insurance coverage and those in poorer health encounter more barriers than others and are prevented by those barriers from obtaining medical care. Service delivery implications are also discussed.
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