Access to vision care for children from immigrant and nonimmigrant households: evidence from the National Survey of Children's Health 2018-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate whether immigrant generation is associated with caregiver-reported receipt of vision testing.

Methods

Nationally representative data from the 2018-2019 National Survey of Children's Health was used. The primary exposure was immigrant generation, with first generation defined as child and all reported parents born outside the United States; second generation, as child born in the United States but at least one parent born outside the United States; and third generation, as all parents in the household born in the United States. The main outcome was caregiver-reported vision testing during the previous 12 months. Odds ratios adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and 95% confidence intervals were computed based on immigrant generation.

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SUBMITTER: Asare AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11645187 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature