Racial and ethnic disparities in socio-economic status, access to care, and healthcare utilisation among children with heart conditions, National Survey of Children's Health 2016-2019.

ABSTRACT: Among children with and without heart conditions of different race/ethnicities, upstream social determinants of health, such as socio-economic status, access to care, and healthcare utilisation, may vary. Using caregiver-reported data from the 2016-19 National Survey of Children's Health, we calculated the prevalence of caregiver employment and education, child's health insurance, usual place of medical care in the past 12 months, problems paying for child's care, ≥2 emergency room visits, and unmet healthcare needs by heart condition status and race/ethnicity (Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White). For each outcome, we used multivariable logistic regression to generate adjusted prevalence ratios controlling for child's age and sex. Of 2632 children with heart conditions an

SUBMITTER: Judge AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10680441 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature