The Impact of Restrictive Policies on Mexican Immigrant Parents and Their Children's Access to Health Care.

ABSTRACT: Background: This study assessed whether policies that limit Mexican immigrants' access to care affects their children's access to a regular source of care, health insurance, and timely preventive health visits. Method: This was a cross-sectional study among Mexican immigrant parents who attended a health promotion program in Texas, Nevada, New York, and Illinois. A sociodemographic survey, including parental and child variables, was administered. Results: Children of parents without health insurance were almost four times more likely to be uninsured and eight times more likely to lack a regular source of care. Children of parents without a regular source of care were less than half as likely to have their own regular source of care than children whose parents had a reg

SUBMITTER: Aragones A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665780 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature